It is needless to pursue further the dissolution of the Empire. The fatal blow was struck at Arbela--all the rest was but the long death-agony. At Arbela the crown of Cyrua passed to the Macedonian; the Fifth Monarchy came to an end. The HE-GOAT, with the notable horn between his eyes, had come from the west to the ram which had two horns, and had run into him with the fury of his power. He had come close to him, and, moved with choler, had smitten the ram and broken his two horns--there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he had cast him down to the ground and stamped upon him--and there was none to deliver the ram out of his hand. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5. (of 7): Persia, by George Rawlinson