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. |