1 When he had died, disfigured in his
torments, the fifth leaped forward, and
said,

2 “I don’t intend, O tyrant, to get excused
from the torment which is on behalf of
virtue.

3 But I have come of my own accord,
that by my death you may owe heavenly
vengeance and punishment for more
crimes.

4 O you hater of virtue and of men, what
have we done that you thus revel in our
blood?

5 Does it seemevilto youthat we worship
the Founder of all things, and live according
to his surpassing law?

6 But this is worthy of honors, not torments,

7 if you had been capable of the higher
feelings of men, and possessed the hope of
salvation from God.

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 rack,

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. On the tyrant
asking him whether he would eat and be
delivered, he said,