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ἑκα^τόμ-βη , ἡ, (ἑκατόν, βοῦς) prop.
A.an offering of a hundred oxen; but even in Hom., generally, sacrifice, Il.6.115 (apptly. of twelve oxen, cf. 93), Od.3.59 ; of bulls and goats, Il.1.315 ; of fifty rams, 23.146 ; of three victims, Schwyzer726.19 (Milet.) ; Com., “πουλυπόδων ἑ.” Anaxandr.41.29 (anap.) ; “ᾠῶν ἑ.” Ephipp.8.4 : metaph., “ὅστις στρατηγεῖ μὴ στρατιώτης γενόμενος οὗτος ἑ. ἐξάγει τοῖς πολεμίοις” Men.640.
II. name of an eye-salve, Alex. Trall.2.
III. festival at Geronthrae, IG5(1).1120.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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