11. With his breath thus confined, and his body strangled, he said,
12. A great favor you bestow upon us, O tyrant, by enabling us to manifest our adherence to the law by means of nobler sufferings.
13. He also being dead, the sixth, quite a youth, was brought out; and on the tyrant asking him whether he would eat and be delivered, he said,
14. I am indeed younger than my brothers, but in understanding I am as old;
15. for having been born and reared to the same end, we are bound to die also in behalf of the same cause.
16. So that if you⌃ think proper to torment us for not eating the unclean, then torment!