hecatombe
hecatombe, a sacrifice of a hundred oxen, hecatomb
hĕcătombē, ēs, f., = ἑκατόμβη,
- a great sacrifice of a hundred oxen, a hecatomb (ante- and post-class.): facere hecatomben, Varr. ap. Non. 131, 19; Juv. 12, 101 al.—In plur.: celebratis hecatombis, Treb. Gall. 9.—Dim. hĕcătombĭon, ii, n., Sid. Carm. 9, 205.
hecatombē, ēs, Akk. ēn, f. (ἑκατόμβη), ein feierliches Opfer von hundert Ochsen od. anderen Tieren, übh. jedes große öffentliche Opfer, eine Hekatombe (s. Capit. Maxim. et Balb. 11, 5), hec. pura ac puta, Varro sat. Men. 98: hecatomben promittere, Iuven. 12, 101. Vopisc. Tac. 12, 1: hecatomben facere (darbringen, opfern), Varro sat. Men. 100. Capit. Maxim, duo 24, 7: Plur., celebratis hecatombis, Treb. Poll. Gallien. 9, 4. – Dav. Demin, hecatombion, iī, n., eine kleine Hekatombe, Sidon. carm. 9, 205.
hĕcătombē, (16) ēs, f. (ἑκατόμβη), hécatombe [sacrifice de cent victimes, bœufs ou autres] : Juv. 12, 101.
hecatombē ēs, f
- , ἑκατόμβη, a sacrifice of a hundred oxen, hecatomb, Iu.
HECATOMBE
HECATOMBE[SACRIFICIUM]
Hecatombé
(ἑκατόμβη). A word whose original meaning was a sacrifice of a hundred oxen; but in early times it was applied generally to any great sacrifice, without any idea either of oxen or definite number. Mr. A. Platt in the (Eng.) Journal of Philology for 1893, makes ἑκατόμβη to mean originally one ox in each hundred. See sacrificium.