Matthew Poole and continuators on Daniel 8:21

21 And the rough goat is the king of Greece , and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king .

Of Iavan, or Ion, or Ioan, which properly is Asia the less which was inhabited by Iavan, Gen. 10.2. but spread over all Gre[illegible: 3 letters] ▪ and all spake Greek, and the Sea was thence called the Ionian Sea. See more in Bochart.

i. e. Alexander the great; called the Great from his great power, success and possessions; and the first King, i. e. in Asia, and by his Exploits and Victories over the Persian Monarchy; for else there were other Kings of Greece before him, but none of them in the sense aforesaid.

Marginal references: Heb. Iavan.