They are followed by a further wicked king, or " little horn ", who subdues three of the ten ( 7: 24 ), speaks against the Most High, wages war against the saints, and attempts to change the set times and laws ( 7: 25 ); after ' a time and times and half a time ', this king is judged and stripped of his kingdom by an " Ancient of Days " and his heavenly court ( 7: 26 ); next, " one like a son of man " approaches the Ancient of Days and is invested with worldwide dominion ; moreover, his everlasting reign over all kings and kingdoms is shared with " the people of the Most High " ( 7: 27 )

* Peabody, Berkley, The Winged Word: A Study in the Technique of Ancient Greek Oral Composition as Seen Principally Through Hesiod's Works and Days, State University of New York Press, 1975.

' The Ancient of Days has three heads.

The Ancient of Days ( 1794 ) Watercolor etching by William Blake

Ancient of Days is a name for God in Aramaic: Atik Yomin ; in the Greek Septuagint: Palaios Hemeron ; and in the Vulgate: Antiquus Dierum.

The title " Ancient of Days " has been used as a source of inspiration in art and music, denoting the Creator's aspects of eternity combined with perfection.

William Blake's watercolour and relief etching entitled " The Ancient of Days " is one such example.

I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of Days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.

The Ancient of Days is the manifestation of the Ancient of Ancients within Creation.

" The Ancient of Days ", a 14th-century fresco from Ubisi, Georgia ( country ) | Georgia.

In Eastern Orthodox Christian hymns and icons, the Ancient of Days is sometimes identified with God the Father ; but most properly, in accordance with Orthodox theology he is identified with God the Son, or Jesus Christ.

As such, Eastern Christian art will sometimes portray Jesus Christ as an old man, the Ancient of Days, to show symbolically that he existed from all eternity, and sometimes as a young man to portray him as he was incarnate.

It was declared by the Russian Orthodox Church at the Great Synod of Moscow in 1667 that the Ancient of Days was the Son and not the Father.

Building his argument upon the Daniel passage, Thomas Aquinas identifies the Ancient of Days as the Person of the Father.

: Most blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days,

with the clouds of the heavens someone like a son of man happened to be coming ; and to the Ancient of Days he gained access, and they brought him up close even before that One.

" A visit by the Son of Man to bestow a kingdom and honor on the Ancient of Days would suggest that they are two distinct identities.

Among ancient Christian pseudepigrapha, one Book of Enoch states that He who is called “ Son of man ,” who existed before the worlds were, is seen by Enoch in company with the “ Ancient of Days ”

In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the title Ancient of Days belongs to Adam, the oldest and earliest man, who is also identified with the archangel Michael.

In the Bahá ’ í Faith, ' the Ancient of Days ' is one of the titles with which Bahá ’ u ’ lláh refers to Himself.

* Ancient of Days is a well-known Anglican hymn, also known by its tune, Albany, by William Doane, the first Episcopal bishop of Albany, New York.

Amphibian is derived from the Ancient Greek term ἀμφίβιος ( amphíbios ), which means " both kinds of life ", amphi meaning " of both kinds " and bio meaning " life ".

Anatomy ( from the Ancient Greek, anatemnein: ana, " separate, apart from ", and temnein, " to cut up, cut open ") is a branch of biology and medicine that considers the structure of living things.

* Andron, Cosmin ( 2008 ), " Ammonios of Alexandria ", The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists, eds.

There may also be a connection with the Roman god of war Mars, via hypothetical Proto-Indo-European * M ̥ rēs ; compare Ancient Greek μάρναμαι ( marnamai ), " to fight, to battle ", or Punjabi maarna ( to kill, to hit ).

Lagopus is derived from Ancient Greek lago ( λαγως ), meaning " hare ", + pous ( πους ), " foot " and refers to the hair on its feet.

In Ancient Greece there were several cults worshipping the " Kourotrophos ", the suckling mother, represented by goddesses such as Gaia, Hera and Artemis.

Claudius ' Ascent to Power ", Ancient History, 22 25 – 31.

On the other hand, French lait and Spanish leche ( both meaning " milk ") are less obviously cognates of Ancient Greek gálaktos ( genitive singular of gála, " milk "), a relationship more evidently seen through the intermediate Latin lac " milk ", as well as the English word lactic and other terms borrowed from Latin.

* " The New Testament's Anti-Jewish Slander and Conventions of Ancient Polemic ", Luke Johnson, Journal of Biblical Literature, Volume 3, 1989

Like the term " tyrant " ( which was originally a respectable Ancient Greek title ), and to a lesser degree " autocrat ", " dictator " came to be used almost exclusively as a non-titular term for oppressive, even abusive rule, yet had rare modern titular uses.

Ancient Egyptian texts dating from 2750 BC referred to these fish as the " Thunderer of the Nile ", and described them as the " protectors " of all other fish.

By the time of Cicero he had become " the dark " ( Ancient Greek — ) because he had spoken nimis obscurē, " too obscurely ", concerning nature and had done so deliberately in order to be misunderstood.

The word ultimately derives from the Ancient Egyptian âb, âbu " elephant ", through the Latin ebor-or ebur.

Coined in 1817 by Scottish inventor Sir David Brewster, " kaleidoscope " is derived from the Ancient Greek καλός ( kalos ), " beautiful, beauty ", εἶδος ( eidos ), " that which is seen: form, shape " and σκοπέω ( skopeō ), " to look to, to examine ", hence " observer of beautiful forms.

The name Lupercalia was believed in antiquity to evince some connection with the Ancient Greek festival of the Arcadian Lykaia ( from Ancient Greek: λύκος — lukos, " wolf ", Latin lupus ) and the worship of Lycaean Pan, assumed to be a Greek equivalent to Faunus, as instituted by Evander.

The word meme is a shortening ( modeled on gene ) of mimeme ( from Ancient Greek μίμημα mīmēma, " something imitated ", from μιμεῖσθαι mimeisthai, " to imitate ", from μῖμος mimos " mime ") and it was coined by the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene ( 1976 ) as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena.

The roots are borrowed from Ancient Greek: μεταλλουργός, matallourgos, " worker in metal ", from μέταλλον, metallon, " metal " + ἔργον, ergon, " work ".

The term is a transliteration of the Ancient Greek (), meaning " imitator, pretender ", and was used in 1904, by the German evolutionary biologist Richard Semon, best known for his development of the engram theory of memory, in his work Die mnemischen Empfindungen in ihren Beziehungen zu den Originalempfindungen, translated into English in 1921 as The Mneme.

The Morrígan is usually interpreted as a " war goddess "; W. M. Hennessey's " The Ancient Irish Goddess of War ", written in 1870, was influential in establishing this interpretation.

The term Minotaur derives from the Ancient Greek, a compound of the name ( Minos ) and the noun " bull ", translated as "( the ) Bull of Minos ".