⁴⁰ You, the fourth that has come, have conquered all the beasts that have gone before, and you have held sway over the world with great terror and over all the earth with grievous oppression, and for so long you have lived on the earth with deceit.^[a](A)

²⁴ and its inhabitants more oppressively than all who were before them. Therefore they are called the heads of the eagle,^(A)