5 and hiring+ counselors against them to frustrate their counsel all the days of Cyrus the king of Persia down till the reign of Da·riʹus+ the king of Persia.

2 And now what is truth I shall tell to you:+

“Look! There will yet be three kings standing up for Persia,+ and the fourth one+ will amass greater riches than all [others].+ And as soon as he has become strong in his riches, he will rouse up everything against the kingdom of Greece.*+