damocles   (TTS Sound)

The damocles has 1 Senses.

• damocles
• 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)
• ディオニュシオス王に仕えるギリシア人の延臣で、（伝説によると）ダモクレスが王は幸せであると言ったとき、むき出しの剣が髪の毛でつるされている下に座らされて、王が幸せではないことを知らしめられた（紀元前4世紀）