9
Have mercy, then, upon your own selves, whom I, although an enemy, compassionate for your age and comeliness.
10
Will you not reason upon this—that if you disobey, there will be nothing left for you but to die in tortures?
11
Thus speaking, he ordered the instruments of torture to be brought forward, that very fear might prevail upon them to eat unclean meat.
12
And when the spearman brought forward the wheels, and the racks, and the hooks, and catapeltae, and caldrons, pans, and finger-racks, and iron hands and wedges, and bellows, the tyrant continue:
13
Fear, young men, and the righteousness which ye worship will be merciful to you if you err from compulsion.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.