ECATOMBÆON, Εκατόμβιον, in Chronology, the first month of the Athenian year. It consisted of 30 days, and began on the first new moon after the sum-
mer solstice, and consequently answered to the latter Ecaessade part of our June and beginning of July. The Beoti-8ans called it Hippodromus, and the Macedonians Lous.8 See MONTH. The word is a derivative from the Greek εκτόμβιον, a hecatombe, because of the great number of hecatombs sacrificed in it.