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Ὠς χαρίεν ἔστʹ ἄνθρωπος, ὅταν ἄνθρωπος ᾗ → What a fine thing a human is, when truly human!
trial by ordeal: see Sophocles, Antigone 264, 265.
crisis: P. and V. ἀγών, ὁ.