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HECATOMB (Gr. EKarept from EKarbv, a
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hundred, and t3ous, an ox)  , originally the
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sacrifice of a
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hundred oxen in the religious ceremonies of the Greeks and
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Romans; later a large number of any
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kind of animals devoted for sacrifice . Figuratively, "
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hecatomb" is used to describe the sacrifice or destruction by
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fire,
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tempest, disease or the
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sword of any large number of persons or animals; and also of the wholesale destruction of inanimate
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objects, and even of
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mental and moral attributes .

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