All the town crowded to the spot where the martyrdom was to be consummated.  Gordius uttered his last words.  Death is the common lot of man.  As we must all die, let us through death win life.  Make the necessary voluntary.  Exchange the earthly for the heavenly.  He then crossed himself, he stepped forward for the fatal blow, without changing colour or losing his cheerful mien.  It seemed as though he were not going to meet an executioner, but to yield himself into the hands of angels. For the tortures and modes of execution enumerated, Du Duc compares Aristoph., Pax. 452, Chrysost., De Luciano Martyre, and Nicephorus vi. 14.