Damocles$18817$ - translation to italian
FIGURE FEATURED IN AN ANCIENT GREEK MORAL ANECDOTE
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Damocles
n. (Stor) Democle, cortigiano greco alla corte di Dionisio, tiranno di Siracusa, e noto per l"espressione"la spada di Democle"
Definition
sword of Damocles
['dam?kli:z]
¦ noun a precarious situation.
Origin
with ref. to Damocles, a courtier who praised the happiness of the Greek ruler Dionysius I so much that the king made him feast sitting under a sword suspended by a single hair to show him how precarious this happiness was.
Wikipedia
Damocles
Damocles is a character who appears in a (likely apocryphal) anecdote commonly referred to as "the sword of Damocles", an allusion to the imminent and ever-present peril faced by those in positions of power. Damocles was a courtier in the court of Dionysius II of Syracuse, a 4th-century BC ruler of Syracuse, Sicily.
The anecdote apparently figured in the lost history of Sicily by Timaeus of Tauromenium (c. 356 – c. 260 BC). The Roman orator Cicero (c. 106 – c. 43 BC) may have read it in the texts of Greek historian Diodorus Siculus and used it in his Tusculanae Disputationes, 5. 61, by which means it passed into the European cultural mainstream.
