ordeal

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Γυνὴ δὲ χρηστὴ πηδάλιόν ἐστ' οἰκίας → Honesta mulier est gubernaculum domus → Des Hauses Steuerruder ist die brave Frau

Menander, Monostichoi, 99

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substantive

trial by ordeal: see Sophocles, Antigone 264, 265.

crisis: P. and V. ἀγών, ὁ.