[244] Satus Anchisa v. 424. In both places there may be a force in the designation, as the games were given in honour of Anchises, though elsewhere it seems to be a mere poetical variety, as in 6. 331. Aeneas, as Henry remarks, distributes the prizes as ἀγωνοθέτης, like Achilles in Il. 23. ‘Cunctis vocatis,’ as they would naturally have crowded round the shore to see the race.
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