Songworthy

That he comes up a shade self-pitying (he still goes barefoot) is reconciled only by the fact that he's made the subject songworthy this late in his career.

[...] which contains this truly beautiful description of a thoroughly successful life as imagined by a Greek: "That man is happy and songworthy by the skilled, who, victorious by might of hand or vigour of foot, achieves the greatest prizes with daring and with strength; [...]