But for one who abridges there is a given rule to lay out the main part of the events, and to display them before the reader in a brief manner.
And after I began this, I turned my attention to the chronicles,?in order that the key of the book would not grow from within his words? (translation uncertain)
Also a woman and her seven sons were imprisoned in the jail. The king tortured them to [make them] eat pig meat, he beat them with rods and sticks.