Ac primo, quamquam hinc ignis, illinc verbera iam non ad quaestionem, sed ad poenam ingerebantur, non vocem modo, sed etiam  gemitus habuit in potestate; sed postquam intumescens corpus ulceribus flagellorum ictus nudis ossibus incussos ferre non poterat, si tormentis adhibituri modum essent, dicturum se quae scire expeterent  pollicetur.
And at first, although now fire, and now the lash was used upon him, no longer for the purpose of seeking the truth, but as a punishment, he kept not only words but even groans under  control; but when his body, swollen with wounds, could no longer endure the blows of the scourges upon his bare bones, he promised that if they would moderate his tortures, he would tell them what they  wished to know.
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