. The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 4); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . is, see Abyde-nus account (second century b. c.) quoted in Euse-bius (PrEep. Evang., IX, xli). Nothing is expressly said as to what became ofDaniel upon the death of Nabuchodonosor (.501 );it is simply intimated in Daniel, v, 11 sqq., that helost his high office at the court and lived long in re-tirement. The incident which brought him to publicnotice again was the scene of revelry in Baltasarspalace, on the eve of Cyruss conquest of Baby
. The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 4); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . is, see Abyde-nus account (second century b. c.) quoted in Euse-bius (PrEep. Evang., IX, xli). Nothing is expressly said as to what became ofDaniel upon the death of Nabuchodonosor (.501 );it is simply intimated in Daniel, v, 11 sqq., that helost his high office at the court and lived long in re-tirement. The incident which brought him to publicnotice again was the scene of revelry in Baltasarspalace, on the eve of Cyruss conquest of Babylon(538 B. c). While Baltasar (Heb. Belshagear, cor-responding to the Babyl. Balatsu-u^ur, Bel protectthe king) and his lords feasted, impiously drinkingtheir wine from precious vessels which had been takenfrom the Temple at Jerusalem, there appeared thefingers of a man writing on the wall: Mane, Thecel,Phares These mysterious words, which none of thekings wise men was able to interpret, were explainedby Daniel, who at length had been summoned, andwho for his reward became one of the three chief min-isters in the kingdom. The prophet, now at least. DANIEL 621 DANIEL eighty years of age, remained in that exalted positionunder Darius the Mede, a prince possibly to be identi-fied with Darius Hystaspes (485 B. c.)- Darius,moreover, thought of setting him over all the king-dom (vi, 4), when Daniels fellow-officers, fearing suchan elevation, sought to compass his ruin by convictinghim of disloyalty to the Crown. They secured fromthe king a decree forbidding any one, under penalty ofbeing oast into the lions den, to ask any petition ofeither god or man, except the monarch, for thirty they had anticipated, Daniel nevertheless prayed,three times a day, at his open window, towards Jeru-salem. This they reported to the king, and theyforced him to apply the threatened punishment to theviolator of the decree. Upon Daniels miraculouspreservation in the lions den, Darius published ade
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