nodus

Under all roofs of this distracted City is the nodus of a Drama, not untragical, crowding toward solution.

Tum extrema pars eius inferioribus acu assuenda est; nam nodus vulnus laedit, nisi tamen longe est (V. xxvi).

Nodus Secundus, δ Draconis, "the second of the four knots or convolutions."

To one god in particular we may apply the Horatian maxim, "Nec deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus."

He will not have recourse to the devil for the solution of a nodus, till he has exhausted more legitimate sources of assistance.