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[58] Join ἀμοιβὴν ἑκατόμβης. Here there was not accurately a ‘hecatomb;’ but an offering of eighty-one bulls. But the word is used loosely as to number, meaning any large offering; and is applied to a sacrifice where sheep and oxen are mixed together, as in 1. 25, or even where there are no oxen at all, Il.23. 146.

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