3 Maccabees 4:11-13

Revised Standard Version

The Jews Imprisoned at Schedia

¹¹ When these men had been brought to the place called Schedia, and the voyage was concluded as the king had decreed, he commanded that they should be enclosed in the hippodrome which had been built with a monstrous perimeter wall in front of the city, and which was well suited to make them an obvious spectacle to all coming back into the city and to those from the city^[a] going out into the country, so that they could neither communicate with the king’s forces nor in any way claim to be inside the circuit of the city.^{[b] 12} And when this had happened, the king, hearing that the Jews’ compatriots from the city frequently went out in secret to lament bitterly the ignoble misfortune of their brothers, ¹³ ordered in his rage that these men be dealt with in precisely the same fashion as the others, not omitting any detail of their punishment.