Madman

Macedonia’s madman. Alexander the Great. (B.C. 356, 336-323.)

The brilliant madman or Madman of the North. Charles XII. of Sweden. (1682, 1697–1718.)

“Heroes are much the same, the point’s agreed

From Macedonia’s madman to the Swede [Charles XII.].”

Pope: Essdy on Man, iv.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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