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ἑκατόμβοιος

ekatomboios

worth a hundred oxen

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Where it lives

Iliad 3 · 0.27/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

ἑκᾰτόμ-βοιος · hekatom-boios — LSJ

worth a hundred oxen, worth 100 pieces of money

worth a hundred oxen, Il. 2.449, etc.: expld. as worth 100 pieces of money, the ancient coins being stamped with an ox, Eust. 252.18, EM 320.47.

II festival at which hecatombs were offered

ἑκατόμβοια (sc. ἱερά), τά, festival at which hecatombs were offered, SIG 36.36 (Delph., V B.C.), 82.6 (Delph., V B.C.), BCH 29.243 (Delos), IG 5(2).142 (Tegea), Str. 8.4.11 codd.: dat. Ἑκατομβούοις (sic) Schwyzer 91.19 (Argos).

In the wild

ἑκατόμβοιʼ · hekatomboiʼ Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1136b (DIORISIS sentence 1854)
ἑκατόμβοιος · hekatomboios Iliad 2.449
ἑκατόμβοιον · hekatomboion Iliad 21.79
ἑκατόμβοιʼ · hekatomboiʼ Iliad 6.236

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