Elysium the abode of the shades of the virtuous dead in the nether world as conceived of by the poets of Greece and Rome, where the inhabitants live a life of passive blessedness, which, however, is to such a man as Achilles a place of woe rather and unrest, where he would fain exchange places with the meanest hind that breathes in the upper world.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Elyot, Sir Thomas * Elze, Frederick Carl