1And when he had bravely met his glorious death, the third son was brought forward and was
2earnestly entreated by many to taste and so to save himself. But he answered in a loud voice, ‘Are ye ignorant that the same father begat me and my brothers that are dead, and the same
3mother gave us birth, and in the same doctrines was I brought up? I do not forswear the noble
4bond of brotherhood. Therefore if ye have any engine of torment, apply it to this body of mine; for
5my soul ye cannot reach, not if ye would.’ But they were greatly angered at the bold speech of the
6man, and they dislocated his hands and his feet with their dislocating engines, and wrenched his limbs out of their sockets, and unstrung them; and they twisted round his fingers, and his arms,