"Large sacrifices, where a great number of animals were
slaughtered, [among the ancient Greeks] are called hecatombs."
_G. F. Schömann,
Antiquity of Greece: The State,
page 60._
HECATOMBÆON, Battle of.
Fought, B. C. 224, by Cleomenes of Sparta with the forces of
the Achæan League, over which he won a complete victory. The
result was the calling in of Antigonus Doson, king of
Macedonia, to become the ally of the League, and to be aided
by it in crushing the last independent political life of
Peloponnesian Greece.
_C. Thirlwall,
History of Greece,
chapter 62._
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HECATOMPEDON, The.
See PARTHENON AT ATHENS.