Daniel 8:19

In the last end— Even unto the end, or, in the latter time. Daniel 8:21. The king of Grecia] Rather, the kingdom, and so at Daniel 8:20. Hebrew יון iavan, from Javan the son of Japheth, Genesis 10:2. The whole states of Greece were sometimes called Iones, and the sea which washes their borders is the Ionian sea. Yet there seems to have been a distinction made by the Hebrews between the Peloponnesian and the Ionian Greece; but Macedonia certainly belonged to the latter; and Alexander might with the greatest propriety be styled the first king of Ion, as he was the first and chief who subdued the Medo-Persic, and established the Grecian empire.