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noun - a constant and imminent peril
SWORD OF DAMOCLES - Damocles (; Greek: Δαμοκλῆς, romanized: Dāmoklē̂s, lit. 'fame of the people') is a figure featured in a single moral anecdote commonly re...
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| Damocles (; Greek: Δαμοκλῆς, romanized: Dāmoklē̂s, lit. 'fame of the people') is a figure featured in a single moral anecdote commonly referred to as "the Sword of Damocles," an allusion to the imminent and ever-present peril faced by those in positions of power. Damocles was an obsequious courtier in the court of Dionysius II of Syracuse, a 4th-century BCE tyrant of Syracuse, Sicily. * The anecdote apparently figured in the lost history of Sicily by Timaeus of Tauromenium (c. 356–260 BCE). The Roman orator Cicero may have read it in the texts of Greek historian Diodorus Siculus. He used it in his Tusculanae Disputationes, 5. 61, by which means it passed into the European cultural mainstream.* |