1And when this one also died a blessed death, being cast into the cauldron, the seventh son, the youngest of them all, came forward.
2But the tyrant, although fiercely exasperated by his brethren, felt pity for the boy, and seeing him there already bound he had him brought near, and sought to
3persuade him, saying, ‘Thou seest the end of the folly of thy brethren; for through their disobedience they have been racked to death.
4Thou, too, if thou dost not obey, wilt thyself also be
5miserably tortured and put to death before thy time; but if thou dost obey thou shalt be my friend,
6and thou shalt be advanced to high office in the business of the kingdom.’ And while thus appealing to him he sent for the boy’s mother, in order that in her sorrow for the loss of so many sons she