Crossword-Solution: DAMOCLES
We have 15 clues for the answer “DAMOCLES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Courtier who sat under a sword | 1 answer |
| Courtier who was given an object lesson by Dionysius | 1 answer |
| Dionysius suspended a sword over his head. | 1 answer |
| Dionysius's tormented dinner guest. | 1 answer |
| Flattering courtier who changed places with the tyrant Dionysius, in Greek legend | 1 answer |
| Greek courtier associated with a symbolic sword | 1 answer |
| Greek courtier of legend | 1 answer |
| Greek courtier with a storied sword | 1 answer |
| His sword was feared | 1 answer |
| King Dionysus arranged to have a sword suspended over his head by a horse hair | 1 answer |
| One-time diner in Syracuse. | 1 answer |
| Sitter in danger | 1 answer |
| Sword of __ | 1 answer |
| Sword of __: impending disaster | 1 answer |
| courtier | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DAMOCLES (5)
Like Damocles at his celebrated banquet, Rebecca perpetually beheld, amid that gorgeous display, the sword which was suspended over the heads of her people by a single hair.
And what advantages are promised by this law as an offset to this sword of Damocles, suspended by a single hair over the head of the unfortunate husbandman? The expenses of seizure will be much less, it is said; but will the interest on the borrowed capital be less exorbitant? For, after all, it is interest which impoverishes the peasant and leads to his expropriation.
The revolution hangs imminent; we sit, at this council board, below the sword of Damocles.’ ‘We must then lay our heads together,’ said the Prince, ‘and devise some honourable means of safety.’ Up to this moment, since the first note of opposition fell from the librarian, Seraphina had uttered about twenty words.
Here Was Arthur’s sword Excalibar, and that of the Cid Campeader, and the sword of Brutus rusted with Caesar’s blood and his own, and the sword of Joan of Arc, and that of Horatius, and that with which Virginius slew his daughter, and the one which Dionysius suspended over the head of Damocles.
Let us remember also that during ail this time there was suspended over his head, from the palace, a sword of Damocles which was liable to fall at any time.
Quotes with DAMOCLES (3)
Even Damocles developed a routine.
We have got this Damocles' sword of Standard and Poor's hanging over us, with the commitment they have made to review Britain's credit rating in the summer of 2010 after the general election. Everybody in Britain has a vital interest in ensuring that the triple A credit rating agency is maintained.
I reject the idea of work-life balance. The phrase is a bald-faced lie, designed to hang over the human psyche like the Sword of Damocles, because balance presumes an even distribution of weight, of value. But anyone who has ever lived understands that no set of tips or tricks can create a lifestyle equilibrium.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1947–2023).