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Hecatomb

noun
1.
A great sacrifice; an ancient Greek or Roman sacrifice of 100 oxen.





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"Hecatomb" Quotes from Famous Books



... time for the hecatomb was approaching. Robur, who knew the customs of Dahomey, did not lose sight of the men, women, ...
— Rubur the Conqueror • Jules Verne
... know; but to many it seemed as if the Invisible Destruction were scattering visible seed! ... Such were the days; and each day the terror-stricken city offered up its hecatomb to death; and the faces of all the dead were yellow ...
— Chita: A Memory of Last Island • Lafcadio Hearn
... later with five of his uncles, two of whom at least had had no share whatever in the raising, he was hanged at Tyburn. Of all the great house of the Leinster Geraldines only a boy of twelve years old survived this hecatomb. ...
— The Story Of Ireland • Emily Lawless


Words linked to "Hecatomb" :   sacrifice, ritual killing


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