Associations to the word «Hecatomb»
Noun
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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.