Associations to the word «Damocles»

Dictionary definition

DAMOCLES, noun. 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).

Wise words

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates