ἐλπίδες ἐν ζωοῖσιν, ἀνέλπιστοι δὲ θανόντες → hope is for the living, while the dead despair
V. πομπός, ὁ.
sender of blessings: V. πομπὸς… τῶν ἐσθλῶν (Aesch., Choephoroe 147).