Associations to the word «Hecatomb»

Wiktionary

HECATOMB, noun. (historical) In ancient Greece or Rome, a great feast and public sacrifice to the gods, originally of a hundred oxen.
HECATOMB, noun. Any great sacrifice; a great number of people, animals or things, especially as sacrificed or destroyed; a large amount.

Dictionary definition

HECATOMB, noun. A great sacrifice; an ancient Greek or Roman sacrifice of 100 oxen.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King