Brewer's: Madman

Macedonia's madman. Alexander the Great. (B.C. 356, 336-323.)

The brilliant madman
or Madman of the North. Charles XII. of Sweden. (1682, 1697-1718.)
Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede [Charles XII.].

Pope: Essay on Man, iv.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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