hecatomb
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Thou canst not slacken this reluctant speed, Tho' still on Pluto's shrine thy Hecatomb should bleed.
From Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace by Seward, Anna
Meantime Ulysses came To Chrysa with the Hecatomb in charge.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William
Hecatomb, hek′a-tom, n. among the Greeks and Romans, a sacrifice of a hundred oxen: a great public sacrifice: any large number of victims.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
It may therefore be the case that this side represents the Hecatomb offered by the Athenians themselves.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.
The Hecatomb led the procession, escorted by men initiated in the mysteries.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.
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