[266] Probably the strictly proper name of the Assembly, as distinguished from the place of meeting, is ἄγυρις or πανήγυρις (as Od. iii. 131), but the name common to the two prevails.
[267] Od. xxiv. 463.
[268] Od. xxiv. 546.
[269] Besides all the particulars which have been cited, we have incidental notices scattered about the poems, which tend exactly in the same direction. For example, when Chryses prays for the restitution of his daughter, his petition is addressed principally to the two Atridæ, but it is likewise addressed to the whole body of Ἀχαιοὶ (Il. i. 15), that is, either to the entire army, or at any rate to all the kings; or, to all the members of the Achæan race. This we may compare with the application of the prayer of Ulysses in Scheria to the king and people.
[270] Il. viii. 28, 9. ix. 430, 1.
[271] Il. viii. 38-40.
[272] Il. i. 5.
[273] Il. iv. 17-19.
[274] Od. ii. 68, 9.
[275] Il. xviii. 497.