7 Make the attempt, then, O tyrant; and if you put us to death for our religion, think not that you harm us by torturing us.
8 For we through this ill-treatment and endurance shall bear off the rewards of virtue.
9 But you, for the wicked and despotic slaughter of us, shall, from the Divine vengeance, endure eternal torture by fire.
10 When they had thus spoken, the tyrant was not only exasperated against them as being refractory, but enraged with them as being ungrateful.
11 So that, at his bidding, the torturers brought forth the oldest of them, and tearing through his tunic, bound his hands and arms on each side with thongs.
12 And when they had laboured hard without effect in scourging him, they hurled him upon the wheel.
13 And the noble youth, extended upon this, became dislocated.