A.happiness, bliss, esp. worldly happiness, weal, “ἀλλ᾽ οὔ μοι τοιοῦτον ἐπέκλωσαν θεοὶ ὄ.” Od.3.208, cf. 4.208 ; “Ζεὺς δ᾽ αὐτὸς νέμει ὄ. ἀνθρώποισιν” 6.188 ; “ὄλβῳ τε πλούτῳ τε” Il.16.596, Od.14.206, cf. Emp. 119 : freq. in Lyr., as Pi.O.6.72, B.3.92, and Trag., as A.Pers.164, 252, 709, al. ; “ὁ πρὶν παλαιὸς ὄ.” S.OT1282, cf. Plu.Per.12 : rarely in pl., “ἐν Διὸς κήποις ἀροῦσθαι . . εὐδαίμονας ὄ.” S.Fr.320 (lyr.).—Poet. word, used by Hdt.1.32, 86, X.Cyr.1.5.9, 4.2.44 and 46, Ar.Av.421, Hp.Ep.3,5, LXX Si.30.15. (Perh. cogn. with Lith. algà (I.-E. olg[uglide]ā) 'wage'.)
ὄλβος , ὁ,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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