ordalía

EN If at the present moment the witch, memory, were in a freak, to cause all the present generation to recollect that some ten centuries back they had been somebody else, would not several of our free thinking martyrs wonder to find that they had suffered as Christmas under Domitian, while the judge as he passed sentence would suddenly become aware, that formerly he had condemned the saints of the early church to torture, for not renouncing the religion he now upheld -- nothing but benevolent actions and real goodness would come pure out of the ordeal.
GL Se neste momento á fada da memoria lle dese por facer que a xeración actual se decatase de que hai uns dez séculos eran outras persoas, moitos dos nosos mártires librepensadores non se sorprenderían ao saber que xa antes sufriran como cristiáns baixo o goberno de Domiciano. Mentres que o xuíz, ao ditar sentenza, caería na conta de que xa noutro tempo condenara a tortura ós santos da primeira igrexa por non renunciar á fe que el defende agora e de tal ordalía só podería resultar benevolencia e auténtica bondade.
Fonte: DOD (98)

---

terrible experiencia, terríbel experiencia

EN How, it asks, have nations that endured atrocities in the second half of this century come to terms with their ordeal?
GL ¿De que xeito os pobos que durante a segunda metade do século tiveron que sufrir terribles atrocidades están enfrontando esta terrible experiencia?
Fonte: C23 (4)

---