4 Maccabees 11:8-10

Revised Standard Version

⁹ While he was saying these things, the guards bound him and dragged him to the catapult; ¹⁰ they tied him to it on his knees, and fitting iron clamps on them, they twisted his back^[a] around the wedge on the wheel,^[b] so that he was completely curled back like a scorpion, and all his members were disjointed.