I believe, in different climes, I have already sacrificed an hecatomb to my Nemesis, in pursuance of this vow. |
Pile up, high as heaven, your hecatomb of victims, offered to the God of love. |
The hunter turns faint, sick, as he contemplates this hecatomb of corpses. |
Half a century ago the need to construct peace was patently obvious to those who had witnessed the hecatomb of the Second World War. |
We might be tempted to question the legacy of such a hecatomb, followed 21 years later by the Second World War. |
They would first make a hecatomb of their hated foes, and then fall upon it. |