[756] Sortitus is found in a few MSS., and was adopted by Burm. and Heyne, perhaps under a mistaken notion that its external authority was greater. The participle would clearly be out of place, as the clause ‘hoc Ilium’ &c. has nothing to do with what precedes. The meaning is, he assigns the sites for private dwellings by lot, and gives names to the different quarters of the city. With ‘sortitur domos’ comp. 3. 137, “Iura domosque dabam:” with the remainder, v. 633 above, 3. 349 foll. Wagn. explains ‘Ilium’ of the city, ‘Troiam’ of the region: but the city was called Acesta, and ‘Troia’ in Helenus' city can scarcely have been the region, which Helenus had called Chaonia (3. 334 foll.). Strabo 13, p. 608 C. comp. by Wagn. says that the rivers about Aegesta had the names of Scamander and Simois.
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