[Meaning] that of Hades. "But you will not raise him from the lake of Hades, which is common to all, not with lamentations or prayers." *pa/gkoinos [means the lake] at which all must arrive. The sense [is]: not by grieving nor by petitioning the gods will you raise this man up.[1] In the Homeric saying: "for there is no effect in bitter lamentation."[2] And Aeschylus [writes]: "death [is] the only god who does not love gifts."[3] "He does not accept the part of sweet hope."[4]