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Daedala to Dentil Molding Deo to Dysnomia
A flatterer who was too excessive when he extolled the apparent happiness of his host, Dionysius II, the tyrant of the city of Syracuse on the island of Sicily.
Offended by his flattery, Dionysius placed Damokles under a sword that was suspended by a single hair as an example of the precarious nature of happiness; thus we get the phrase, The Sword of Damokles as a reminder that happiness is very tenuous and should be savored whenever it is experienced.
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