10 to which binding him at his knees, and fastening them with iron fetters, they bent down his loins upon the wedge of the wheel; and his body was then dismembered, scorpion-fashion.
11 With his breath thus confined, and his body strangled, he said,
12 A great favor you bestow upon us, O tyrant, by enabling us to manifest our adherence to the law by means of nobler sufferings.
13 He also being dead, the sixth, quite a youth, was brought out; and on the tyrant asking him whether he would eat and be delivered, he said,
14 I am indeed younger than my brothers, but in understanding I am as old;
15 for having been born and reared to the same end, we are bound to die also in behalf of the same cause.
16 So that if you⌃ think proper to torment us for not eating the unclean, then torment!