_--"Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was
strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones
toward the four winds of heaven." Verse 8.
Of the ram (Persia) it was said it became "great;" of the goat (Grecia);
that it became "very great."
_History._--Justin, the Roman, wrote of Alexander:
"So much was the whole world awed by the terror of his name,
that all nations came to pay their obedience to
him."--_"History of the World," book 12, chap. 13._
"Vain in his hopes, the youth had grasped at all,
And his vast thought took in the vanquished ball."
--_Lucan's "Pharsalia" (Nicholas Rowe's translation), book 3._
But the unerring prophecy had said that "when he was strong, the great
horn was broken." Suddenly the youthful conqueror was cut down by death,
just as he was preparing to celebrate at Babylon a "convention of the
whole universe,"
"being thus taken off in the flower of his age, and in the
height of his victories."--_Justin, "History of the World,"
book 13, chap. 1._
The ancient pagan writers, in telling the story, make use of language
very similar to that used by divine prophecy in foretelling it.
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