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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 Dam·o·cles /ˈdæməˌkliz/
 為Syracuse的國王Dionysius的臣下

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Damocles
      n : 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)