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Contrary to Reason, indeed, were it for us, after living unto the truth till old age, and guarding in lawful guise the repute of so living, now to change and become in our own persons a pattern to the young of impiety, to the end that we should encourage them to eat unclean meat.

But when they had scourged him till they were weary, and gained nothing thereby, they cast him upon the wheel.

And on it the noble youth was racked till his bones were out of joint. And as joint after joint gave way, he denounced the tyrant in these words:

And on this they twisted his spine till he saw his own flesh hanging in strips and great gouts of blood pouring down from his entrails.