The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
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Examples for "Aeolic"
Examples for "Aeolic"
1The only ancient parallel is in the period of the Aeolic Greek civilisation which produced Sappho.
2He wrote in the broad Spartan dialect with a mixture of the Aeolic, and in various metres.
3Alcaeus composed in the Aeolic dialect; for the reason, it is said, that it was more familiar to his hearers.
4The Latium Antiquum of Pliny and the Aeolic of the Autochthones of Greece present the closest kinship, we are told.
5Strabo and Pausanias alike affirm the Aeolians to be Pelasgic, and in the Aeolic dialect we approach to the Pelasgic tongue.
1Alcaeus composed in the Aeolic dialect; for the reason, it is said, that it was more familiar to his hearers.
2Strabo and Pausanias alike affirm the Aeolians to be Pelasgic, and in the Aeolic dialect we approach to the Pelasgic tongue.
3For the derivation of the Latin from the Aeolic dialect of Greece, see "Scheid's Prolegomena to Lennep's Etymologicon Linguae Grecae."