hecatombs in English
noun
1
(in ancient Greece or Rome) a great public sacrifice, originally of a hundred oxen.
Let the North be conquered, and the salt tears of the oppressed will water the ground for many a long decade of years, and many a hecatomb will uprear its head, and many a sod be nurtured by the blood of liberty-loving human beings.
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