1. 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)

Type of: courtier

Encyclopedia: Damocles

• James Henry Leigh Hunt
• James Hogg
• James Howard Meredith
• James Hutton
• James I
• James II
• James IV
• James Ives
• James Jerome Hill
• goose liver
• goose pimple
• goose plum
• goose skin
• goose step
• goose-tansy
• gooseberry
• gooseberry bush
• gooseberry family
• gooseberry garnet
• goosebump
• goosefish
• gooseflesh
• goosefoot
• goosefoot family
• goosefoot maple