A goddess Macaria ('μακαρία', literally 'blessed') is named in the Suda. This Macaria is the daughter of Hades. She seems to have embodied a blessed death; the Suda connects her name to the figure of speech "be gone to blessedness," instead of misery or damnation, which may be euphemistic, in the way that the dead are referred to as "the blessed ones." The phrase was proverbial for those whose courage endangered them.