1) Courtier 2) Greek courtier of legend 3) His fate hung by a thread 4) One-time diner in Syracuse 5) Sitter in danger 6) Targeting pod
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Damocles (z; Δαμοκλῆς Dāmoklē̂s, literally: `fame of the people`) is a figure featured in a single moral anecdote commonly referred to as `the Sword of Damocles`, an allusion to imminent and ever-present peril faced by those in positions of power. The Damocles of the anecdote was an obsequious courtier in the court of Dionysius II ...
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a courtier of Dionysius the Elder of Syracuse, in Sicily, tyrant from 405 to 367 . The courtier is known to history through the legend of the `Sword ...
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(lived 4th century BC) In classical legend, a courtier of the elder Dionysius, ruler of Syracuse, Sicily. When Damocles made too much of his sovereign's good fortune, Dionysius invited him to a feast where he symbolically...
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Damocles was a sycophant of the court of Dionysius. He continually flattered the monarch, calling him the happiest man in the world. In order to show him the cares of a sovereign, Dionysius caused him to sit upon a throne at a feast of unparalleled splendour. Damocles gazed in delight on the scene until, looking up he saw a sword hanging point-down...
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[
n] - 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)
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noun 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)
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In classical legend, a courtier of the elder Dionysius, ruler of Syracuse, Sicily. When Damocles made too much of his sovereign's good fortune, Dionysius invited him to a feast where he symbolically hung a sword over Damocles' head by a single horse-hair to demonstrate the precariousness of the happiness of kings
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