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damocles
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Noun damocles has 1 sense
- damocles(n = noun.person) Array - 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); Array is a kind of courtier
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