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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

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elder
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Dionysius of
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Syracuse . When he spoke in extravagant terms of the happiness of his
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sovereign, Dionysius is said to have invited him to a sumptuous banquet, at which he found himself seated under a naked
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sword suspended by a single
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hair (
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Cicero, Tusc. v . 21;
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Horace, Odes, iii . 1, 17
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Persius 40) .

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