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Damocles

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | Copyright

Damocles a legendary courtier who extravagantly praised the happiness of Dionysius I, ruler of Syracuse. To show him how precarious this happiness was, Dionysius seated him at a banquet with a sword hung by a single hair over his head. The sword of Damocles is now used to refer to a precarious situation.

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