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"I am younger in age than my brothers, but I am their equal in mind.
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Since to this end we were born and bred, we ought likewise to die for the same principles.
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So if you intend to torture me for not eating defiling foods, go on torturing!"
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When he had said this, they led him to the wheel.
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He was carefully stretched tight upon it, his back was broken, and he was roasted from underneath.
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To his back they applied sharp spits that had been heated in the fire, and pierced his ribs so that his entrails were burned through.
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While being tortured he said, "O contest befitting holiness, in which so many of us brothers have been summoned to an arena of sufferings for religion, and in which we have not been defeated!
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For religious knowledge, O tyrant, is invincible.
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I also, equipped with nobility, will die with my brothers,
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and I myself will bring a great avenger upon you, you inventor of tortures and enemy of those who are truly devout.
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We six boys have paralyzed your tyranny.