4 Maccabees 11:9

9 While he was saying these things, the guards bound him and dragged him to the catapult;

4 Maccabees 11:9 In-Context

9 While he was saying these things, the guards bound him and dragged him to the catapult;

10 they tied him to it on his knees, and fitting iron clamps on them, they twisted his back around the wedge on the wheel, so that he was completely curled back like a scorpion, and all his members were disjointed.

11 In this condition, gasping for breath and in anguish of body,