Daniel 8:20
The ram, which thou sawest with horns, is the king of the Medes and Persians.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Aries, quem vidisti habere cornua, rex Medorum est atque Persarum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὁ κριὸς ὃν εἶδες, ὁ ἔχων τὰ κέρατα, βασιλεὺς Περσῶν καὶ Μήδων.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הָאַ֥יִל אֲשֶׁר רָאִ֖יתָ בַּ֣עַל הַקְּרָנָ֑יִם מַלְכֵ֖י מָדַ֥י וּפָרָֽס
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Aphrahat Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations, Of Wars
5. Again the ram was lifted up and exalted, and pushed with its horns towards the west, and towards the north, and towards the south, and humbled many beasts. And they could not stand before him, until the he-goat came from the west and smote the ram and broke his horns and humbled the ram completely. But the ram was the King of Media and Persia, that is, Darius; and the he-goat was Alexander, the son of Philip, the Macedonian. For Daniel saw the ram when he was in the East before the gate of Shushan the fortress that is in the province of Elam, upon the river Ulai. And he was pushing towards the West and towards the North and towards the South. And none of the beasts could stand before him . And the he-goat of the goats came up from the region of the Greeks, and exalted himself against the ram. And he smote him and broke both his horns, the greater and the lesser. …