The leopard beast succeeds the dragon which also represents Rome in its pagan form.

These powers appear therefore upon the stage of action at the same time.
2.

Their location.

The little horn plucked up three horns to make way for itself.

The last of these, the Gothic horn, was plucked up when the Goths were driven from Rome in 538, and the city was left in the hands of the little horn, which has ever since held it as the seat of its power.