John Trapp on Daniel 8:7

Ver. 7. And I ſaw him come cloſe unto the ram] Who ſtood for a while in his ſtoutneſſe, and brought ſeveral huge armyes into the field; not leſs then fifteen hundred thouſand: but all would not do. The faireſt ſtates are ſubject to change in their greateſt flouriſh, Ezek. 31.18.

In ſo magna ruunt: laetis hunc numinarebus Creſcendi poſuere modum.—Lucan.

And he was moved with choler againſt him] Neither would he be pacified with promiſe of great gifts, and of part of the Kingdom, and the marriage of his daughter.

And ſmot the ram] By overthrowing the Perſian armyes in three main battles at Granicum, [illegible: 1 letter]t Iſſum, and at Arbela, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Strabo. not far from which is the mountain Nicatorium ſo called by Alexander as a conſtant trophie of that famous victory.

And there was no power in the ram to ſtand before him] In that laſt battle at Arbela, the whole power of Perſia was overturned: and Darius Codomannus was ſlain by Beſſus one of his own Captains. It is obſerved, that great Kingdoms oft fall and are deſtroyed under ſuch Kings as are of the ſame name with the founders thereof: Darius here for inſtance: ſo Philip of Macedon, and Philip the Father of Perſeus the laſt King of that Country: ſo Conſtantine the Great, and Conſtantine Palaologus: Auguſtus and Auguſtulus, &c.

And ſtamped upon him] i. e. After full conqueſt, he crowed, inſulted, triumphed: at the inſtance of his concubine Thais, he cauſed the moſt goodly palace in the world at Perſopolis, to be ſet on fire.