ἐλπίδες ἐν ζωοῖσιν, ἀνέλπιστοι δὲ θανόντες → hope is for the living, while the dead despair
īlĭcĕus: a, um, adj. id.,I of holm-oak, oaken: trabes, Stat. Th. 6, 101; cf. iligneus and ilignus.