'hecatomb' in At the New Yorker | Bookmarker

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(in ancient Greece or Rome) a great public sacrifice, originally of a hundred oxen OR an extensive loss of life for some cause

the exactly contemporary hecatombs on the Western front

—p.56 De Profundis (54) by George Steiner

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