ἐλπίδες ἐν ζωοῖσιν, ἀνέλπιστοι δὲ θανόντες → hope is for the living, while the dead despair
exspīrātĭo: (expīr-), ōnis, f. exspiro,I a breathing out, exhalation: terrae, Cic. N. D. 2, 33, 83.