[a. Gr. χιλιόμβη (in Julian, etc.), formed in imitation of ἑκατόμβη HECATOMB.] A sacrifice of a thousand (oxen).
1697. Potter, Antiq. Greece, II. iv. (1715), 219. Chiliombs, in which were sacrificed a thousand living Creatures.
1807. Robinson, Archæol. Græca, III. iv. 209. Mention is frequently made of hecatombs … and of chiliombs.
