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Elpenor was one of Odysseus' comrades, and happened to be the youngest. This was labelled as part of the road of trials for that fact he had to mourn about this, thinking this was his fault. He had to overcome this.
Assuming the word submit is underlined, the words that are closest would be yield and obey.
Transition is a word, if it was a phrase it would have more than one word