λήγειν

From LSJ

ἐλπίδες ἐν ζωοῖσιν, ἀνέλπιστοι δὲ θανόντες → hope is for the living, while the dead despair

Source

Greek > English (Woodhouse Verbs Reversed)

(see also λήγω): cease, cease from, desist from, rest from

Lexicon Thucydideum

desinere, to cease, 5.81.2, 7.6.2.