or Trojan games, were games said to be instituted by Ascanius, son of Æneas, and afterwards kept up by the Romans with great solemnity. They were celebrated by companies of boys, neatly dressed, and furnished with little arms and weapons, who muttered in the public circus. They were chosen, for the most part, out of the noblest families of Rome, and the captain of them had the honourable title of princeps juvenutis, being sometimes next heir to the empire, and seldom less than the son of a principal senator.