Far away in the west a crimson glow like fire lit up this vast hecatomb of brave lives sacrificed, this final agony of the vast Empire, the might and grandeur of one man laid low this day by the mightier hand of God.
How will the quaking lips which throughout the length and breadth of this vast hecatomb now cry, "Sauve qui peut!
And as the gloom of night settles on this vast hecatomb on the plateau of Mont Saint Jean the conquerors of Jena and Austerlitz and Friedland make their last stand round the bronze eagle--all that is left to them of the glories of the past.
Helenus, alarmed at the feats of Diomed, urges Hector to desire Hecuba to collect the aged women for a procession to the temple of Athene, with a robe for a gift, and with the promise of a hecatomb (Il.
If Neptune in the Odyssey is gone among the Ethiopians[630], it is for a hecatombof bulls and lambs.
If I return in triumph, I will offer him such a hecatomb as no god has had so far.
I have not burned Rome; but if Cæsar permitted I would give a hecatomb at once to their divinity.
At the jura of 1833 ninety-nine bulls were massacred; had one more been added the hecatomb would have been complete.
She, bathed and habited in fresh attire, Vow'd a full hecatomb to all the Gods, Would Jove but recompense her num'rous wrongs.
Far, far into the night they saw the blaze That leapt in crimson o'er the abandoned hulk Behind them, like a mighty hecatomb Marking the path of some Titanic will.
Ay, sweeping o'er the sunset-crimsoned sea Let the proud pageant in its glory come, Leaving the sunset like a hecatomb Of souls whose bodies yet endure the chain!
See'st thou yon height of wall, and yon deep trench With which the Grecians have their fleet inclosed, 530 And, careless of our blessing, hecatomb Or invocation have presented none?
Nor vow nor hecatombunpaid on us He charges, but the wrong done to his priest Whom Agamemnon slighted when he sought His daughter's freedom, and his gifts refused.
Agamemnon, King of men, Hath sent thy daughter home, with whom we bring 545 A Hecatomb on all our host's behalf To Phoebus, hoping to appease the God By whose dread shafts the Argives now expire.
Meantime Ulysses came To Chrysa with the Hecatombin charge.
Next on the shore their hecatomb they land; Chryseis last descending on the strand.
So saying he gave the girl over to her father, who received her gladly, and they ranged the holy hecatomb all orderly round the altar of the god.
He escorted Chryseis on board and sent moreover a hecatomb for the god.
They then got out upon the sea-shore and landed the hecatomb for Apollo; Chryseis also left the ship, and Ulysses led her to the altar to deliver her into the hands of her father.
He laid the arrow on the string and prayed to Lycian Apollo, the famous archer, vowing that when he got home to his strong city of Zelea he would offer a hecatomb of firstling lambs in his honour.
He will not deliver the Danaans from this pestilence till Agamemnon has restored the girl without fee or ransom to her father, and has sent a holy hecatomb to Chryse.
Take your home aim then, and pray to Lycian Apollo, the famous archer; vow that when you get home to your strong city of Zelea you will offer a hecatomb of firstling lambs in his honour.
Then on the shingly breakwater themselves They landed, and the sacred hecatomb To great Apollo; and Chryseis last.
What a hecatomb of bees must not a colony of these pirates sacrifice for their personal consumption, to say nothing of their stores of provisions!
Now the henchmen were leading through the town the holy hecatomb of the gods, and lo, the long-haired Achaeans were gathered beneath the shady grove of Apollo, the prince of archery.
There he looked to receive hishecatomb of bulls and rams, there he made merry sitting at the feast, but the other gods were gathered in the halls of Olympian Zeus.
More especially we pray thee send down thy grace on Nestor and on his sons; thereafter also make the rest of the Pylian people some handsome return for the goodly hecatomb they are offering you.
He had gone there to accept a hecatomb of sheep and oxen, and was enjoying himself at his festival; but the other gods met in the house of Olympian Jove, and the sire of gods and men spoke first.
Meanwhile the heralds were bringing the holy hecatomb through the city, and the Achaeans gathered under the shady grove of Apollo.
It may therefore be the case that this side represents the Hecatomb offered by the Athenians themselves.
The Hecatombled the procession, escorted by men initiated in the mysteries.
To this class belonged Doeg, a monster in human form, to whom it was no distress, but apparently a congenial employment, to murder in cold blood a very hecatomb of men consecrated to the service of God.
They themselves then went forth on the breakers of the sea, and disembarked the hecatomb to far-darting Apollo, and then they made the daughter of Chryses descend from the sea-traversing bark.
Forthwith he fitted the bitter arrow to the string, and vowed to Lycian-born Apollo, the renowned archer, that he would sacrifice a splendid hecatomb of firstling lambs, having returned home to the city of sacred Zeleia.
But Teucer was appointed first by lot; and straightway he shot an arrow strenuously, nor did he vow to sacrifice a celebrated hecatomb of firstling lambs to king [Apollo].
But the son of Atreus[37] launched his swift ship into the sea, and selected and put into it twenty rowers, and embarked a hecatomb for the god.
Then they immediately placed in order the splendid hecatomb for the god around the well-built altar.
Then the hecatomb is preparing: let the unfit perish and only the strongest survive!
What does a hecatomb of twenty thousand wretches signify?
Hecatomb of men sacrificed by General Grant to reach a position to which McClellan had already demonstrated there was an easy and inexpensive route, 526.
To Julia to expedite her Promise' is somewhat more laboured and so less happy: and the loss of the lyric form in 'The Hecatomb to his Mistress' is considerable.
After Pythagoras discovered his fundamental theorem he sacrificed a hecatomb of oxen.
They had had experience of these things; and such a sight as this hecatomb of their nation's manhood in its vigour and prime, must have been before their eyes when they uttered their warning, oft repeated but all unheeded.
As for Xuvani, that unregenerate old heathen, though he understood and practised the virtue of gratitude so well, yet it was patent that the sacrifice of a hecatomb of missionaries would have inspired him with no compunction whatever.
They would think he had heard of the death of some relative; and grimly he thought to himself how the death of a hecatomb of relatives would be mere gossip compared with the "news" he really had heard.
