Damocles

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Dāmō̆cles, is, m.,

a courtier of Dionysius the younger , Cic. Tusc. 5, 21, 6 (cf. Hor. Od. 3, 1, 17; Pers. 3, 40).