damocles

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• 15. februar 2013 fra wordnet.princeton.edu

  damocles — navneord — engelsk

  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)