Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A group of dialects of ancient Greek spoken by the Aeolians.
- noun Any of several verse forms built around a central choriamb, used especially by Sappho, Alcaeus, and their imitators.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to Æolis or Æolia, to the Æolians, or to Æolus, their mythical ancestor; Æolian: as, Æolic towns; the Æolic branch of the Greek race.
- noun The language of the Æolians; the Æolian dialect of Greek.
- noun Also written
Eolic and Aiolic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
- adjective Æolian, 1
- adjective (Phys. Geog.) Pertaining to, caused by, or designating, the action of the wind in modifying the earth's surface. Same as
aeolian{3} .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun An ancient Greek dialect spoken in
Boeotia and the island ofLesbos .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis
Etymologies
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Examples
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But I look at some of the Greats with a capital G of the past — take Sappho (who has come up in another conversation), who wrote in an Aeolic dialect of ancient Greek — in an island vernacular — for what must have been the tiniest of audiences by our standards.
Anxiety, a rant in three fits : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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The palmette capitals of the tree-like columns are not lotus-blossom capitals, as Weinberg and other classicists once supposed, much less “proto-Aeolic” capitals as William F. Albright thought.
Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008
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And that this Aeolic speaking poet was a Boeotian of
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We can imagine, therefore, that among such folk a settler, of Aeolic origin like Hesiod, who clearly was well acquainted with the Ionian epos, would naturally see that the only outlet for his gifts lay in applying epic poetry to new themes acceptable to his hearers.
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Aeolic, Sappho's dialect, didn't have initial rough breathings, so the article would be "o," not "ho."
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Ionian exiles and the Lesbians with the expedition began to urge him, since this seemed too dangerous, to seize one of the Ionian cities or the Aeolic town of Cyme, to use as a base for effecting the revolt of Ionia.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005
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Besides these there were men of Aeolic race, the Methymnians, subjects who provided ships, not tribute, and the Tenedians and Aenians who paid tribute.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005
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While the Peloponnesians were in the Hellespont, the Antandrians, a people of Aeolic extraction, conveyed by land across Mount Ida some heavy infantry from Abydos, and introduced them into the town; having been ill-treated by Arsaces, the Persian lieutenant of
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005
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First, as for the word bulimy, it was agreed upon by all to denote a great and public famine, especially among us who use the Aeolic dialect, putting [Greek omitted] for [Greek omitted].
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First, as for the word bulimy, it was agreed upon by all to denote a great and public famine, especially among us who use the Aeolic dialect, putting [Greek omitted] for [Greek omitted].
Symposiacs 2004
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