And after you shall arise another kingdom inferior to you, and another third kingdom of bronze, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
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Jerome
AD 420
(The Vulgate LXX does not include "made of silver.") That is to say, the empire of the Medes and Persians, which bears a resemblance to silver, being inferior to the preceding empire, and superior to that which is to follow.