Damocles

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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)