Was transformed by Greek art and civilization.
5. And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear,
The Hellenes, or Greece and her colonies in their palmy days
and it raised up itself on one side,
faced in the direction of Persia
and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it:
3 columns of strength, viz:—Athens, Sparta and Thebes. The vision made its appearance 21 years before the Alliance was formed. The ribs therefore, had not knit in place when the heavenly visitor made known the fact of their future union. The alliance lasted 93 years, see Thucydides III. 69.
and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh
destroy hundreds of thousands in your Persian and civil wars.
6. After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard,