6 Sentences With "hecatombs"

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The perpetrators of this and similar hecatombs were men, our own flesh and blood.
In South Beach, under a huge oceanside tent, American celebrity chefery was prepping to sear hecatombs of flesh.
Seeing, then, that such a fearful portent had broken in upon our hecatombs, Calchas forthwith declared to us the oracles of heaven.
During the royal hunt, the Shang killed wild beasts with reckless abandon, and consumed hecatombs of domestic animals at a bin banquet or a funeral.
I was trying to come on here, but the gods detained me in Egypt, for my hecatombs had not given them full satisfaction, and the gods are very strict about having their dues.
III, 4, 34Silius III, 361 These large sacrifices, or "hecatombs" were accompanied by the drinking of the still warm blood of the horses. The Cantabrians considered horses to be sacred animals. Tacitus (56 AD 120AD) mentions that the Germanic people believed this. In Germania X (98 AD), he wrote, se sacerdotes enim ministros deorum, illos equos conscios putant ("the horses themselves think of the priests as ministers of the gods").