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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 upon it 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,
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but you, because of your impiety and bloodthirstiness, will undergo unceasing torments."
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When he also had died in a manner worthy of his brothers, they dragged in the fourth, saying,
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"As for you, do not give way to the same insanity as your brothers, but obey the king and save yourself."