damocles
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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) (noun.person)
| instance hypernym | : | courtier, |
| definition | : | an attendant at the court of a sovereign (noun.person) |
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