And as these things are three [2504], so shall mortals ever sacrifice perfect hecatombs to you at your feasts each three years.
Why, oh, why must these reeking hecatombs load our tables, when they might as easily be kept out of sight upon a buffet?
I go to charge our senators and wives That they address the Gods with prayers and vows For our success, and hecatombs devote.
Then to Apollo, on the shore they slew, Of the untillable and barren deep, Whole Hecatombsof bulls and goats, whose steam Slowly in smoky volumes climbed the skies.
Hector then acquaints the troops, that he was going to desire the old counsellors and the matrons of the city to supplicate the deities, and to promise hecatombs (iii.
On the erection of the rampart by the Greeks, Neptune immediately urges the omission of the regular hecatombsagainst them.
Offended by the omission to include her in the hecatombs offered to the Immortals, she sends a wild boar to desolate the country.
The great political hecatombshave taken place in France since the decree of the Provisional Government of 1848.
Who will avenge thesehecatombs of unknown men, executed in silence, like the last combatants of the Pere Lachaise in the darkness of the night?
The hecatombs of the Asiatic victors, the fetes of Dahomey alone could give some idea of this butchery of proletarians.
And they sacrificed to Apollo perfect hecatombs of bulls and goats, along the shore of the barren sea; and the savour involved in[39] smoke ascended to heaven.
Dost thou not perceive how the long-haired Greeks have built a wall before their shipping, and have drawn a ditch all round, nor have they given splendid hecatombs to the gods?
The place, after a defence that had cost hecatombs of lives to the besiegers, was allowed to capitulate on honourable terms.
Homer's men, we saw, usually sacrifice hecatombs outside of the temple, though twelve kine are sacrificed in the temple of the Trojan Athena.
When the Achaeans were sacrificing several hecatombs at once to Zeus, in Aulis, they naturally could not do so in a temple, but under a fair plane tree, by a clear running stream.
Hecatombs uponhecatombs were offered up, and the whole nation was feasted.
Christianity first raised it to be an article of faith, to which hecatombs of human beings were sacrificed.
What hecatombs of lives often hang upon the not weighing or not sufficiently weighing the force of an idea, such as, for example, the reverence for a flag, or the blind attachment to a form or constitution of government!
As the blood and smoke of so many hecatombs might be inconvenient, Lightfoot, the Christian Rabbi, removes them by a miracle.
During twenty years the nations were engaged in internecine conflict, and Europe witnessed hecatombs that would have terrified Ghengis Khan and Tamerlane.
For who would, voluntary, such a breadth Enormous measure of the salt expanse, Where city none is seen in which the Gods Are served with chosen hecatombs and pray'r?
The pretext was found sufficient and elastic, and the hecatombs began.
Thermidor began with the hecatombs from the pretended Conspiracy of the Prisons, and the transfer of the guillotine to the Barriere du Trone Renverse.
Go bathe, and robed in white ascend the towers; With all thy handmaids thank the immortal powers; To every god vow hecatombs to bleed.
Why cease ye then to implore the powers above, And offer hecatombs to thundering Jove?
To Jove (with stern regard the god replies) And all the offended synod of the skies, Just hecatombs with due devotion slain, Thy guilt absolved, a prosperous voyage gain.
There was nothing unusual, unless indeed it was the assiduousness of the young Duchess, who from morning until night ceased not to offer hecatombs for the safety and freedom of her lord.
On this, I was to fix my oar in the ground and sacrifice a ram, a bull, and a boar to Neptune; after which I was to go home and offer hecatombs to all the gods in heaven, one after the other.
I again stationed my ships in the heaven-fed stream of Egypt, and offered hecatombs that were full and sufficient.
I was trying to come on here, but the gods detained me in Egypt, for my hecatombs had not given them full satisfaction, and the gods are very strict about having their dues.
Then go home and offer hecatombs to all the gods in heaven one after the other.
She heeded her son's words, washed her face, changed her dress, and vowed full and sufficient hecatombs to all the gods if they would only vouchsafe her revenge upon the suitors.
The priest then prayed to the gods, beseeching them to prove themselves stronger than the gods of the enemy in the ensuing engagement, and promising them hecatombs of victims in the event of victory.
Whole hecatombs of petty rulers were sacrificed at this time to the Visconti alone.
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