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What does hecatomb mean?

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Noun
  1. (historical) In ancient Greece or Rome, a great feast and public sacrifice to the gods, originally of a hundred oxen.
  2. Any great sacrifice; a great number of people, animals or things, especially as sacrificed or destroyed; a large amount.
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They would first make a hecatomb of their hated foes, and then fall upon it.
Make a hecatomb of the present Hamleys all at once, while you are about it.
Then Cinna, who not long before would have laughed at faith in Hecate, sacrificed a hecatomb to her.
Pile up, high as heaven, your hecatomb of victims, offered to the God of love.
The hunter turns faint, sick, as he contemplates this hecatomb of corpses.
He had promised Aphrodite a hecatomb, a sacrifice of 100 oxen, if he won Helen, but forgot about it, and earned her wrath.

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