The word ἀγορά, popular assembly, does not occur here; but it is plainly implied. It is to be distinguished from the βουλή, or council of the chiefs.—See Grote as above, and Homer passim.
“All crowning Consummator.”
As the opening words of this prayer generally are one of the finest testimonies to the sovereignty of Jove to be found in the poet, so the conjunction of words τελέων τελειὸτατον, κράτος is particularly to be noted. The adjectives τέλειος, τελεος, παντελής, and the verb τελέω, are often applied with a peculiar significancy to the king of the gods, as he who alone can conduct to a happy end every undertaking, under whatever auspices commenced. This doctrine is most reverently announced by the Chorus of this play towards the end ([p. 244]), in these comprehensive terms—
τι δε ἄνευ σέθεν
θνατοισι τελειον εστι.
“What thing to mortal men is completed without thee.” And in this sense Clytemnestra, in the Agamemnon ([p. 69]), prays—
Ζεῦ Ζεῦ τέλειε τὰς εμὰς ἐυχὰς τὲλει.
On the over-ruling special providence of Jove generally the scholar should read Klausen, Theol. II., 15, and Class. Mus. No. XXVI. pp. 429-433.