Bel and the Dragon, History of, one of the books of the Apocrypha, a spurious addition to the book of Daniel, relates how Daniel persuaded Cyrus of the vanity of idol-worship, and is intended to show its absurdity.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bekker, Immanuel * Bela I.