Jewish%20thought for Kiddushin 143:9

(דניאל ז, ה) וארו חיוא אחרי תנינא דמיה לדוב תני רב יוסף אלו פרסיים שאוכלין ושותין כדוב ומסורבלין כדוב ומגדלין שער כדוב ואין להם מנוחה כדוב ר' אמי כי הוה חזי פרסא דרכיב אמר היינו דובא ניידא

Said R'Johanan: This refers to Hulwan, Adiabene and Nesibin,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Or Nesibis, as it was generally called. A town in Mesopotamia, not included in the 'Exile' proper, which possessed an important Jewish community; ibid. p. 129.');">²⁸</span> which it [Persia] sometimes swallowed and sometimes spat out.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., sometimes it ruled over them, sometimes not; v. ibid.');">²⁹</span> And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid.');">³⁰</span> R'Joseph recited: This refers to the Persians, who eat and drink like a bear, are fleshy like a bear, overgrown with hair like a bear, and have no rest like a bear. When R'Ammi saw a Persian riding he would say: 'There is a wandering bear!'

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