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DAMOCLES

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 790 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DAMOCLES , one of the courtiers of the See also:

elder See also:

Dionysius of See also:

Syracuse . When he spoke in extravagant terms of the happiness of his See also:

SOVEREIGN

sovereign, Dionysius is said to have invited him to a sumptuous banquet, at which he found himself seated under a naked See also:

SWORD (0. Eng. sweord; ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning to wound)

sword suspended by a single See also:

HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair (See also:

CICERO

Cicero, Tusc. v . 21; See also:

HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Horace, Odes, iii . 1, 17 See also:

PERSIUS

Persius 40) .

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