| Seeing, then, that such a fearful portent had broken in upon our hecatombs, Calchas forthwith declared to us the oracles of heaven. |
| The perpetrators of this and similar hecatombs were men, our own flesh and blood. |
| During the royal hunt, the Shang killed wild beasts with reckless abandon, and consumed hecatombs of domestic animals at a bin banquet or a funeral. |
| 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. |
| In South Beach, under a huge oceanside tent, American celebrity chefery was prepping to sear hecatombs of flesh. |
