The rest are divided and slaves bring false charges
The churches writing the letter tell what happened after Vettius Epagathus was taken up into the lot of the martyrs, when the remaining arrested Christians were sifted.
From that point the rest began to stand apart. Those who were open and ready showed themselves as first martyrs, and with complete eagerness they fulfilled the profession of faith of the testimony. Those who were unready and untrained and still weak also came to light, since they could not bear the fear of a great contest, and about ten in number miscarried. They brought us great grief and immeasurable mourning, and they checked the eagerness of the rest who had not yet been arrested, although these last suffered every horror and still stood beside the martyrs and did not leave them. Then we were all deeply afraid because the profession of faith hung in the balance. We did not fear the tortures laid upon us, but we looked toward the end and dreaded lest anyone fall away. Yet day by day those who were worthy were arrested and filled up their number, until all the zealous from the two churches had been gathered in, including those on whom our life here chiefly depended.
Some pagan household slaves of ours were also arrested, for the governor had ordered in public that all of us be hunted down. Through the ambush of Satan they grew frightened at the tortures they saw the saints enduring, and at the urging of the soldiers toward this very thing they falsely accused us of Thyestean dinners and Oedipodean unions, and of deeds which for us it is not lawful even to speak of or to imagine, nor even to believe.
Greek
Ἐντεῦθεν δὴ διεκρίνοντο οἱ λοιποί, καὶ φανεροὶ καὶ ἕτοιμοι ἐγίνοντο πρωτομάρτυρες, οἳ καὶ μετὰ πάσης προθυμίας ἀνεπλήρουν τὴν ὁμολογίαν τῆς μαρτυρίας, ἐφαίνοντο δὲ καὶ οἱ ἀνέτοιμοι καὶ ἀγύμναστοι καὶ ἔτι ἀσθενεῖς, ἀγῶνος μεγάλου φόβον ἐνεγκεῖν μὴ δυνάμενοι· ὧν καὶ ἐξέτρωσαν ὡς δέκα τὸν ἀριθμόν· οἳ καὶ μεγάλην λύπην καὶ πένθος ἀμέτρητον ἐνεποίησαν ἡμῖν καὶ τὴν προθυμίαν τῶν λοιπῶν τῶν μὴ συνειλημμένων ἐνέκοψαν· οἳ καίπερ πάντα τὰ δεινὰ πάσχοντες, ὅμως συμπαρῆσαν τοῖς μάρτυσιν καὶ οὐκ ἀπελείποντο αὐτῶν. Τότε δὲ οἱ πάντες μεγάλως ἐπτοήθημεν διὰ τὸ ἄδηλον τῆς ὁμολογίας, οὐ τὰς ἐπιφερομένας κολάσεις φοβούμενοι, ἀλλὰ τὸ τέλος ἀφορῶντες καὶ τὸ ἀποπεσεῖν τινα δειμαίνοντες. Συνελαμβάνοντο μέντοι καθ᾽ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν οἱ ἄξιοι τὸν ἐκείνων ἀναπληροῦντες ἀριθμόν, ὥστε συλλεγῆναι ἐκ τῶν δύο ἐκκλησιῶν πάντας τοὺς σπουδαίους καὶ δι᾽ ὧν μάλιστα συνεστήκει τὰ ἐνθάδε. Συνελαμβάνοντο δὲ καὶ ἐθνικοί τινες οἰκέται τῶν ἡμετέρων, ἐπεὶ δημοσίᾳ ἐκέλευσεν ὁ ἡγεμὼν ἀναζητεῖσθαι πάντας ἡμᾶς· οἳ καὶ κατ᾽ ἐνέδραν τοῦ σατανᾶ, φοβηθέντες τὰς βασάνους ἃς τοὺς ἁγίους ἔβλεπον πάσχοντας, τῶν στρατιωτῶν ἐπὶ τοῦτο παρορμώντων αὐτούς, κατεψεύσαντο ἡμῶν Θυέστεια δεῖπνα καὶ Οἰδιποδείους μίξεις καὶ ὅσα μήτε λαλεῖν μήτε νοεῖν θέμις ἡμῖν, ἀλλὰ μηδὲ πιστεύειν.