ILI: i94850 (original) (raw)

Global WordNet Association: Interlingual Index

Instance

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)

Status

active

Source

Princeton WordNet 3.010921571-n