Belshazzar : (died c.539 BC); co-regent of Babylon at whose feast the words Mene, Mene, Tekel, & Parsin appeared on the wall. The prophet Daniel (q.v.), interpreting this, foretold the destruction of the city in 539 BC.
... prophecy I then hazarded would be fortified by so apt and striking a comment. Facts are already beginning to speak in a very clear and unambiguous voice. How long will the Congress sit like careless Belshazzar, at the feast of mutual admiration? Already the decree has gone out against it; already even the eyes that are dim can discern,—for has it not been written in blood?—the first pregnant phrase of ...
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