olbos
“good fortune/happiness”
idea · 2 works · 6 mentions · 11 anchored passages
olbios · prosperity · happy · wealth
in the texts
Odyssey
The Greek concept of good fortune, prosperity, or happiness, explicitly glossed at several points across the passage.
You seem to be just such another tramp as myself, but perhaps the gods will give us better luck [ olbos] by and by.
"Good luck to you," he said, "father stranger, you are very badly off at present, but I hope you will have better times [ olbos] by and by.
A night will come when I shall have to yield myself to a marriage which I detest, for Zeus has taken from me all hope of happiness [ olbos].
Iliad
The Greek term for wealth or prosperity, applied to Bathykles as supreme among the Myrmidons.
Glaukos, leader of the Lycians, was the first to rally them, by killing Bathykles son of Khalkon who lived in Hellas and was supreme in wealth [ olbos] among the Myrmidons.
the gods endowed him with all good things from his birth upwards, for he reigned over the Myrmidons excelling all men in prosperity [olbos] and wealth, and mortal though he was they gave him a goddess for his bride.