# The Eighth Year Of The Persecution, Commenced A. D. 309.

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It is related that at this time the modes of torture
and of putting to death were various. Some were
beheaded with the axe, as was mostly done with the
martyrs in Arabia. Some had their legs broken on
the wheel, as was the case with those who confessed
the name of Christ in Cappadocia. Others were
hung up by their heels, with the head close to the
ground, and then suffocated by a small fire, as was
the case in Mesopotamia. Some had their noses,
ears, hands, feet, and other members, cut off, as
was done to those at Alexandria. At Antioch some
were roasted on frying-pans, not unto death, but to
intensify the pain. But the sufferings inflicted upon
the poor martyrs in Pontus are horrible to relate;
for some had sharp splints of reed thrust between
the nails and the flesh of their fingers; others had
melted lead poured over their naked bodies; some
had their secret parts singed and seared, in the invention
of which tortures the judges and proconsuls
vied with one another, even as though they wished
thereby to manifest their great ingenuity, and their
tyranny against the Christians. See concerning,
this, A. Mell., fol. 128, col. 1, 2.



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