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adjective

aeolic adj.

AEolian, 1; As, the AEolic dialect; the AEolic mode.

(Phys. Geog.) Pertaining to, caused by, or designating, the action of the wind in modifying the earth's surface; as, aeolic erosion; aeolic sand. Same as aeolian 3. (Written also eolic)

noun

Aeolic n.

The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.

Synonyms: Eolic

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Aeolic" Quotes from Famous Books

... winter-storm crashing among the many-tinted crags of Monte Pellegrino,—with the wind raging as it knows how to rage here in sight of the Isles of Aeolus, and the rain dashing on the glass as ruthlessly as it well could have done, if, instead of Aeolic Isles and many-tinted crags, the window had fronted a dearer shore beneath a northern sky, and looked across the grey Firth to the rain-blurred outline ...

— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa

... find noticed a most ridiculous mistake into which one of the champions of the moderns fell about a passage in the Alcestis of Euripides. Another writer is so inconceivably ignorant as to blame Homer for mixing the four Greek dialects, Doric, Ionic, Aeolic, and Attic, just, says he, as if a French poet were to put Gascon phrases and Picard phrases into the midst of his pure Parisian writing. On the other hand, it is no exaggeration to say that the defenders of the ancients were entirely unacquainted with the greatest productions of ...

— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 1 • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... Poets. We hear of books on Alcaeus and on Homer, in which latter he is said to have made the startling remark that the poems 'should be pronounced in the Aeolic dialect'. Whatever this remark exactly meant, and we cannot tell without the context, it seems an extraordinary anticipation of modern philological discoveries. He wrote on the Hypotheses—i. e. the subject matter—of ...

— Five Stages of Greek Religion • Gilbert Murray