8. Behold now, being alien from God, you make war against those who are religious toward God.
9. As he said this, the spearbearers bound him, and drew him to the catapelt:
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.