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Damocles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Damocles (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Damocles was a legendary Greek figure. Damocles or the Sword of Damocles can also refer to: • 5335 Damocles, an asteroid • Damocles , a 1990 science fiction videogame • The Sword of Damocles (virtu...
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The Sword of Damocles was described by Cicero in his Tusculan Disputations. ... Some of you have asked "What is the Sword of Damocles?" Here is an explanation of the story of the sword and the relevant passage from Cicero, in Latin.
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The Sword of Damocles is a legend about a a man who tries on the life of a king only to find it is more dangerous than he realized. ... Definition: Cicero tells the story of the Sword of Damocles in his Tusculan Disputations. The story is based on a legend about the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius II and the fawning Damocles,
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When Damocles said that he desired this, ... In the middle of this luxury Dionysius ordered that a shining sword, fastened from the ceiling by a horse-hair, be let down so that it hung over the neck of that fortunate man. And so he looked neither at those handsome waiters nor the wonderful silver work, nor did he stretch...
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Damocles was one of these. ... For directly above his head hung a sword, held to the ceiling by only a single horsehair. Its sharp blade glittered as it pointed right between his eyes. He started to jump up and run, but stopped himself, frightened that any sudden move might snap the thin thread and bring the sword down.
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; Richard Westall; British, 1765 - 1836; The Sword of Damocles ... If you are familiar with allusions to the "sword of Damocles," you may know that to feel that the sword of Damocles is hanging over you is to have a sense of anxiety, of impending doom.
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Sword of Damocles - Definition of Sword of Damocles at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms, and translation of Sword of Damocles. Look it up now! ... Also, Damocles' sword. Impending disaster, as in The likelihood of lay-offs has been a sword of Damocles over the department for months.
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Damocles, sword of - Definition of Damocles, sword of at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms, and translation of Damocles, sword of. Look it up now! ... Search another word or see Damocles, sword of on Thesaurus | Reference...
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MUMBAI, Aug 6: ... A division bench of the High Court had rapped the chief minister for pressurising government officials into taking illegal action to benefit his son-in-law Girish Vyas who had build a commercial complex on a Pune plot reserved for a school. ... Thus, despite elaborate submissions made by Joshi, both Shiv Sena...
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