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And when all admired his courageous soul, the spearmen brought forward him who was second in point of age, and having put on iron hands, bound him with pointed hooks to the catapelt.
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by which means our just and paternal Providence, becoming merciful to the nation, will punish the pestilent tyrant.
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And saying this, the revered youth abruptly closed his life.
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And when all admired his courageous soul, the spearmen brought forward him who was second in point of age, and having put on iron hands, bound him with pointed hooks to the catapelt.
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And when, on enquiring whether he would eat before he was tortured, they heard his noble sentiment,
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after they with the iron hands had violently dragged all the flesh from the neck to the chin, the panther-like beasts tore off the very skin of his head: but he, bearing with firmness this misery, said,
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.