a sop to Cerberus

A bribe. Taken from the ancient Greek and Roman custom of leaving gifts with corpses so that Cerberus (guardian of the gates of hell) would pass them by. What is this money, a sop to Cerberus so that I won't tell the authorities what you've done?

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Husam	hu-SAH:M	Arabic
Gionata	jo-NAH-tah	Italian
MÜMtaz	-	Turkish
Severin	ZE-ve-reen (German)	German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Micah	MIE-kə (English)	Biblical, English
Gavril	-	Bulgarian, Macedonian, Romanian