9 so that out of the body of the impious man worms swarmed, and while he was still living in anguish and pains, his flesh fell off, and by reason of the stench all the army turned with loathing from his corruption.
10 And the man that a little before supposed himself to touch the stars of heaven, no one could endure to carry for his intolerable stench.
11 Hereupon therefore he began in great part to cease from his arrogancy, being broken in spirit, and to come to knowledge under the scourge of God, his pains increasing every moment.
12 And when he himself could not abide his own smell, he said these words: It is right to be subject to God, and that one who is mortal should not be minded arrogantly.
13 And the vile man vowed to the sovereign Lord, who now no more would have pity upon him, saying on this wise:
14 that the holy city, to the which he was going in haste, to lay it even with the ground and to make it a common graveyard, he would declare free;
15 and as touching the Jews, whom he had decided not even to count worthy of burial, but to cast them out to the beasts with their infants, for the birds to devour, he would make them all equal to citizens of Athens;