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Read›4 Maccabees›Chapter 11

4 Maccabees 11:10

In 2 translations

WEB: 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.
LXXE: 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.

Original-language editions

LXX-Br: 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.