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acrificed one hundred lions, one hundred eagles, and 
one hundred other beads of the like kind. 
HECATOMB AL'ON, the fir!! month of the Athenian 
year, confiding of thirty day s ; beginning on the fil'd new 
moon after the fummer foldice, and confequently anfwer- 
ing to the latter part of our June and the beginning of 
July. It had its name from the great number of heca¬ 
tombs ufually facrificed in it. 
HECATOMBOI'A, a fedival celebrated in honour 
of Juno by the Argians and people of ASgina. It re¬ 
ceives its name from sy-ocTov and /3ov;, a facrifice of a hun¬ 
dred bulls, which were always offered to the goddefs, 
and the flelh didributed among the poored citizens. 
There were alfo public games fird indituted by Ar- 
chinus king of Argos, in which the prize was a fiiield of 
brafs with a crown of myrtle. 
HECATOMPHO'NIA, a folemn facrifice offered by 
the Meffenians to Jupiter when any of them had killed 
an hundred enemies. 
HEC ATOM'POLIS, an epithet given to Crete, from 
the hundred cities which it once contained. 
HECATOM'PYLOS, in ancient geography, the me¬ 
tropolis of Parthia, and royal refidence of Arfaces, fitu- 
ated at the fprings of the Araxes. Thebes in Egypt 
had alfo the fame name from its hundred gates. 
HEC ATONNE'SI, in ancient geography, fmall iflands 
between Lefbos and Afia. 
HECH'INGEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Swabia, which gives name to a branch of the family of 
Hohenzollern, and is the refidence of the prince : thirty 
miles fouth of Stuttgart, and fifty-two ead-fouth-ead of 
Straftmrg. 
HECHT (Chriftian), a German protedant divine, 
born at Halle, in Saxony, about the year 1696. He be¬ 
came minider of Effen in Ead-Friezland, where he died 
in 1748, leaving behind him various works of confidera- 
ble reputation. Among thefe are, 1. Commentatio Philo- 
logico-Critico-Exegetica, de Seffa Scribaritm. 2. Antiquitas 
Haraorum inter Judaos in Polonies & Turcici Imp. Regionibus 
florentis SeEla, E 3 c. and numerous treadles in the German 
ianguage. 
HECHT (Godfrey), a learned German writer, born 
at Juterback, in the latter part of the feventeenth cen¬ 
tury. tie received his academical education at the uni- 
verfity of Wittemberg. In 1711, he was appointed rec¬ 
tor of the college at Luccaw, in Lower Lufatia, where, 
to the great lofs of the learned world, he died at an 
early age, in 1721. He was the author of, 1. Programma 
de Judais impulfort Chrejlo Roma tumultuantibus, 1712. 2. 
De Dignitate & Prajlantia Critices, 1713. 3. De Rei Heral- 
dica inter Germanos, fpeciatim Saxonas, Aujpiciis, 1717. 4. 
De Epigrammatum in Oratione civili. ufu , 17rS. 5. De Hen- 
rici Guelji lioiaria £3 Saxonia Duds infigmbus Gentilitiis , unde 
Leonis tulit Elogium, Commentarius, 1713, 4to. 6. Germania 
Sacra & Literaria, 1717, 8vo. 7. Vita Johannis Tezelii, 
1717, 8vo. and various other biographical pieces, as well 
as learned differtations in the Latin language, which 
were either feparately pubiilhed, or printed in the Mif- 
cellanea Lipjienfia. 
HECK, /. An engine to take fidi. A falmon heck 
i.s a grate for catching that fort of filh. 
TeHEC'KLE, v.a. [corruptedfrom hatcheW\ Todrefs 
flax. Scott. 
HEC'KLE, /. [corrupted from hatchel .] An inflru- 
jpent to drefs flax. 
HECK'LINGEN, a town of Germany, in the circle 
©f Upper Saxony, and duchy of Anhalt Bernburg : ten 
ipiles north-eaft of Bernburg. 
HEC'LA, a volcano of Iceland, and one of the mod 
furious in the world, fituated on the fouthern part of 
the ifland. See Iceland. 
KECLABIR', a ridge of rocks on the weft coaft of 
the ifland of north Ronaldlha, one of the Orkneys. 
HECQUET (Philip), an eminent French phyfician, 
kom at Abbeville, in 166s. At the age of feventeenhe 
HEC 
was fent to Paris, where he ftudied philofophy and the¬ 
ology, to which laft fcience he always retained an attach¬ 
ment which greatly influenced his writings and charac¬ 
ter. He graduated in the medical profeflion at Rheims, 
in 1684, and afterwards fettled in his native city. He 
quitted this fituation for the metropolis in 1688, and was 
made phyfician to the religious foundation of Port-Royal. 
On the death of Mad. de Vertus, the fuperior, he re¬ 
moved to Paris, and was aggregated to the faculty there, 
receiving the doctor’s cap in 1697. He was made a pro- 
feffor in the fchools, and the branch of materia medica 
was afligned to him. He rofe to high reputation in the 
practice of his profeflion, which was probably favoured 
by the religious aufterity of his manners. He was a de¬ 
clared enemy to all luxury of the table, and a patron of 
abftinence and vegetable diet. His fondnefs for the ufe 
of the lancet and diluents was expofed in Le Sage’s San- 
grado ; yet he was much in fafhion, efpec.ially among 
thofe of the Janfenift party. He was appointed phyfi¬ 
cian to the hofpital of la Charite, the duty of which he 
performed with all the zeal of principle. In 1712 he 
was made dean of the faculty, in which office he intro¬ 
duced a new pharmacopoeia. In 1727 increafing infir¬ 
mities induced him to retire ; but he ftill gave his ad¬ 
vice to the poor, of whom he was the friend and father. 
He died in 1737, at the age of feventy-fix, and was bu¬ 
ried in the church of the Carmelites. His tomb is dif- 
tinguifhed by a Latin epitaph compofed by Rollin. His 
principal publication was Medecine, Chirurgie, & Pharmacie, 
des Pauvres, 1740, 3 vols.—1749, 4Vols. umo. To the 
author’s credit it fliould be mentioned, that, although 
much attached to the Janfenifts, he wrote again!! the 
fanatical convulfionaries of St. Medard, and proved that 
there was nothing preternatural in their exhibitidns. 
HEC'TIC, or Hec'tical, adj. [keElique , Fr. from 
e|k, Gr.) Habitual ; conftitutional: 
A heElic fever hath got hold 
Of the whole fubftance, not to be controul’d. Dome. 
Troubled with a morbid heat.—No heElic ftudent fears 
the gentle maid. Taylor. 
HEC'TIC, /. An he£tic fever : 
Like the heElic in my blood he rages, 
-And thou muft cure me. Skakefpeare. 
HEC'TOR, the fon of king Priam and Hecuba, cele¬ 
brated as the mod valiant of all the Trojan chiefs that 
fought again!! the Greeks. He married Andromache 
the daughter of Eetion, by whom he had Aftyanax. He 
was appointed captain of all the Trojan forces, when 
Troy was befieged by the Greeks ; and the valour with 
which he behaved ffiowed how well qualified he was to 
difeharge that important office. He engaged with the 
brave!! of the Greeks, and according to Hyginus, no lefs 
than thirty-one of the mo!t valiant of the enemy periffied 
by his hand. When Achilles had driven back the Tro¬ 
jans toward the city, Heftor, too brave to fly, waited 
the approach of his enemy near the Scean gates, though 
his father and mother blamed his ralhnefs, and entreated 
him to retire. The fight of Achilles terrified him, and 
he fled before him in the plain. The Greek purfued, 
and He£lor was killed, and his body was dragged in cruel 
triumph by the conqueror round the tomb of Patroclus 
whom Hedtor had flain. The body, after it had received 
the groffeft infult, was ranfpmed by Priam, and the Tro¬ 
jans obtained from the Greeks a truce of fome days to 
pay the laft offices to the greateft of their leaders. The 
Thebans boafted in the age of the geographer Paufanias 
that they had the allies of He6tor preferved in an urn, 
by order of an oracle ; which promiled them undifturbed 
felicity if they were in poffefiion of that hero’s remains. 
The epithet of heEloreus is applied by the poets to the 
Trojans, as belt expreflive of valour and intrepidity, 
Homer. 
HEC'TOR,/. [from the name of HeElor, the great 
warrior.] A bully 3 a blufteriug, turbulent, pervica- 
cious. 
