“And when the book of Daniel was showed him [Alexander the Great] wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that he himself was the person intended.”

—  Flavius Josephus , book Antiquities of the Jews

Antiquities of the Jews (c. 94 CE), Book 11.8.5, trans. William Whiston

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