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When he too had endured a glorious death, the third was led in, and many repeatedly urged him to save himself by tasting the meat.
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But he shouted, "Do you not know that the same father begot me as well as those who died, and the same mother bore me, and that I was brought up on the same teachings?
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I do not renounce the noble kinship that binds me to my brothers."
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Enraged by the man's boldness, they disjointed his hands and feet with their instruments, dismembering him by prying his limbs from their sockets,
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and breaking his fingers and arms and legs and elbows.
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Since they were not able in any way to break his spirit, they abandoned the instruments and scalped him with their fingernails in a Scythian fashion.
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They immediately brought him to the wheel, and while his vertebrae were being dislocated by this, he saw his own flesh torn all around and drops of blood flowing from his entrails.
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When he was about to die, he said,
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"We, most abominable tyrant, are suffering because of our godly training and virtue,