4 Maccabees 11:9-11

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. ¹¹ In this condition, gasping for breath and in anguish of body,