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When this one died also, after being cruelly tortured, the fifth leaped up, saying,
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"I will not refuse, tyrant, to be tortured for the sake of virtue.
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I have come of my own accord, so that by murdering me you will incur punishment from the heavenly justice for even more crimes.
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Hater of virtue, hater of mankind, for what act of ours are you destroying us in this way?
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Is it because we revere the Creator of all things and live according to his virtuous law?
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But these deeds deserve honors, not tortures."
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While he was saying these things, the guards bound him and dragged him to the catapult;
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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.