The corpus record — Latin

hecatombe

hecatombe · f

a great sacrifice of a hundred oxen

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Where it lives

Maximus et Balbinus 2 · 6.36/10k
Tacitus 1 · 3.24/10k
Maximini Duo 1 · 1.84/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k

What it meant

hĕcătombē — Lewis & Short

hĕcătombē, ēs, f., = e(kato/mbh,

I 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.

In the wild

hecatomben Historia Augusta, Maximini Duo 24
hecatomben Historia Augusta, Maximus et Balbinus 11
hecatombe Historia Augusta, Maximus et Balbinus 11
hecatomben Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 10.1051
hecatomben Juvenal, Saturae 4.12.101
hecatombe Historia Augusta, Tacitus 12

Where it came from

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