4 Maccabees 11:10
Thomson 1808
not in this edition
Brenton 1851
to which binding him at his knees, and fastening them with iron fetters, they bent down his loins upon the wedge of the wheel; and his body was then dismembered, scorpion-fashion.
Greek · Brenton
ἐφʼ ὃ δήσαντες αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὰ γόνατα, καὶ ταῦτα ποδάγραις σιδηραῖς ἐφορμάσαντες τὴν ὀσφὺν αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὸν τροχιαῖον σφῆνα κατέκαμψαν· περὶ ὃν ὅλος ἐπὶ τὸν τρονὸν σκορπίου τρόπον ἀνακλώμενος ἐξεμελίζετο.