In the midst of his torments he addressed the judge ironically with the words: Assum est, versa et manduca (" I am roasted enough on this side; turn me round, and eat").
Those who had lived evil lives were thrust down into Tartarus, where they suffered endless torments.
None the less it is true that these men and women endured torments, often unthinkable in their cruelty, and death rather than abandon their faith.
In the fragment found at Akhmim there is a prediction of the last things, and a vision of the abode and blessedness of the righteous, and of the abode and torments of the wicked.