for this, too, is a gift of God (O. vi. 188):—
For Zeus himself gives prosperity to mortals.
Sometimes he esteems honor a good (I. viii. 540):—
Would that I might be adored as Athene and Apollo.
Sometimes good fortune in children (O. iii. 196):—
So good a thing it is that a son of the dead should be left.
Sometimes, too, the benefit of one's family (O. xiii. 39):—
Pour ye the drink offering, and send me safe on my way, and
as for you, fare ye well. For now I have all my heart's
desire,—an escort and loving gifts. May the gods of heaven
give me good fortune with them and may I find my noble wife
in my home, and my friends unharmed while ye, for your part,
abide here, and make glad your gentle wives and children, and
may the gods vouchsafe all manner of good and may no evil
come, nigh the people.
That in a comparison of goods valor is better than wealth, he shows in the following (I. ii. 872):—
With childish folly to the war he came,
Laden with stress of gold; yet naught availed
His gold to save him from the doom of death.