Madman

( Macedonia’s ), Alexander, the Great ( B.C. 356, 336-323). Heroes are much the same, the points agreed, From Macedonia’s Madman, to the Swede [ Charles XII .]. Pope, E ay on Man , iv. 219 (1733). How vain, how worse than vain, at length appear The madman’s wish, the Maced on i an tear! He wept for worlds to conquer; half the earth Knows not his name, or but his death and birth. Byron, Age of Bronze (1819). Madman (The Brilliant) , Charles XII., of Sweden (1682, 1697-1718).