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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient region of central Greece north of the gulfs of Corinth and Patras. In the fourth century BC it formed the Aetolian League, a military confederation that rivaled Achaea and Macedon before falling under Roman domination in the second century.
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- proper noun A
mountainous region ofGreece on the northcoast of the Gulf of Corinth, forming the eastern part of the modernprefecture of Aetolia-Acarnania.
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Examples
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Aegialeus, shalt take thy father's place and in thy youth command the host, and with thee Tydeus 'son marching from Aetolia, - him whom his father named Diomedes.
The Suppliants 2008
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Aegialeus, shalt take thy father's place and in thy youth command the host, and with thee Tydeus 'son marching from Aetolia, - him whom his father named Diomedes.
The Suppliants 2008
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Early the next morning he proceeded on his march into Aetolia.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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With this retort he withdrew overland through Aetolia, and by roads, moreover, which no army, small or great, could possibly have traversed without the consent of the inhabitants.
Hellenica 2007
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They also despatched a messenger to Demosthenes, who had led the Athenian expedition into Aetolia, asking him to be their commander, and sent for twenty Athenian ships which were just then cruising about the Peloponnese under the command of Aristoteles the son of Timocrates, and Hierophon the son of Antimnestus.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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This good service of his enabled him to return to Athens with less apprehension after his misfortune in Aetolia.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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Hesiod said that they were sons of Aloeus, — called so after him, — and of Iphimedea, but in reality sons of Poseidon and Iphimedea, and that Alus a city of Aetolia was founded by their father.
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Aetolia, and having further incorporated the Calydonians as citizens,337 were under the necessity of garrisoning their new possession.
Hellenica 2007
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Oeneus reigned in Aetolia, and because he did not sacrifice to
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Peloponnesus, retired into the country of Aeolis, which is now called by the names of the towns Calydon and Pleuron, and to other places in the neighbourhood; also to Proschium in Aetolia.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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