and have compassion on your old age by honoring my humane advice?

When they saw that he was so courageous in the face of the afflictions and that he had not been changed by their compassion, the guards brought him to the fire.

Therefore take pity on yourselves. Even I, your enemy, have compassion for your youth and handsome appearance.

Let us take pity on our youth and have compassion on our mother’s age,

Even though the tyrant had been vehemently reproached by the brothers, he felt strong compassion for this child when he saw that he was already in fetters. He summoned him to come nearer and tried to persuade him, saying,

When he had thus appealed to him, he sent for the boy’s mother to show compassion on her who had been bereaved of so many sons and to influence her to persuade the surviving son to obey and save himself.