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Noun: Damocles  'da-mu,kleez
  1. The Greek courtier to Dionysius the Elder who (according to legend) was condemned to sit under a naked sword that was suspended by a hair in order to demonstrate to him that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was (4th century BC)

Type of: courtier

Encyclopedia: Damocles

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