Hĕc'a-tŏmb, n.

(hĕk'a-tōom) (Synop., § 130), n. [Gr. ἑκατόμβη, from ἑκατόν, hundred, and βοῦς, ox; Lat. hecatombe, Fr. hécatombe.] (Antiq.) A sacrifice of a hundred oxen or beasts of the same kind; hence, any large number of victims.

Slaughtered hecatombs around them bleed. Addison.