When it was said that the dead had gone to Hades, all that was literally meant was that they had gone to the unseen place. […] The oracle was second only to that of Dodona. […] He was the god that presided over commerce, eloquence, wrestling, thieving, and everything that required skill and ingenuity. […] Knowing, therefore, that the bed could not be moved, he exclaimed that the errand was useless, for that no mortal man could stir it from its place. […] that was all that was needed.