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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, Dionysius is said to have invited him to a sumptuous banquet, at which he found himself seated under a naked See also:sword suspended by a single See also:hair (See also:Cicero, Tusc. v. 21; See also:Horace, Odes, iii. 1, 17 See also:Persius 40).

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