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(Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome) A great feast and public sacrifice to the gods, originally of a hundred oxen.

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hecatomb

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(Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome) A great feast and public sacrifice to the gods, originally of a hundred oxen.

The hecatomb was a sacrificial offering of 100 cattle in Ancient Greece.

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(Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome) A great feast and public sacrifice to the gods, originally of a hundred oxen.

For the god they speedily stationed the sacred hecatomb all in good order surrounding the well-built altar.

意味（2）

—There our orb revolved.—

Now stain'd with blood and now with sunbeams gay,

Here heap'd with hecatombs and there with fruits

Of joyous harvest.