After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon its back four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
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Hippolytus of Rome
AD 235
The beast had also four heads. When the kingdom of Alexander was exalted, and grew, and acquired a name over the whole world, his kingdom was divided into four principalities. For Alexander, when near his end, partitioned his kingdom among his four comrades of the same race, viz., Seleucus, Demetrius, Ptolemy, and Philip; and all these assumed crowns, as Daniel prophesies, and as it is written in the first book of Maccabees.
