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the first year: 426 B. C, Daniel being then eighty-seven. See App-50.
Darius. This is an appellative, and means the Maintainer or Restrainer: i.e. Cyrus. See App-57; and special note on 2Ch_36:21.
Ahasuerus, an appellative = the venerable king Astyages. See App-57.
made king: i.e. Cyrus was appointed king of Babylon by Astyages his father.