Damocles

(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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• Gerald went about all day with a tendency to cringe, as if there were the point of a sword of Damocles pricking the nape of his neck. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

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