Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Hecatombaea

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Hecatombaea

（Ἑκατόμβαια).

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A festival celebrated in honour of Heré by the Argives and people of Aegina. It received its name from ἑκατόν and βοῦς, being a sacrifice of a hundred oxen, which were always offered to the goddess, and the flesh distributed among the poorest citizens. There were also public games, first instituted by Archinus, a king of Argos, in which the prize was a shield of brass with a crown of myrtle.

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An anniversary sacrifice called by this name in Laconia, and offered for the preservation of the hundred towns which once flourished in that country.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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