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Meanings of Aeolic dialect in English

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

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        Examples for "Aeolic"
        Examples for "Aeolic"
        1
        The only ancient parallel is in the period of the Aeolic Greek civilisation which produced Sappho.
        Latin Literature
        2
        He wrote in the broad Spartan dialect with a mixture of the Aeolic, and in various metres.
        Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
        3
        Alcaeus composed in the Aeolic dialect; for the reason, it is said, that it was more familiar to his hearers.
        Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
        4
        The Latium Antiquum of Pliny and the Aeolic of the Autochthones of Greece present the closest kinship, we are told.
        Five Years of Theosophy
        5
        Strabo and Pausanias alike affirm the Aeolians to be Pelasgic, and in the Aeolic dialect we approach to the Pelasgic tongue.
        Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book I
        Usage of Aeolic dialect in English
        1
        Alcaeus composed in the Aeolic dialect; for the reason, it is said, that it was more familiar to his hearers.
        Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
        2
        Strabo and Pausanias alike affirm the Aeolians to be Pelasgic, and in the Aeolic dialect we approach to the Pelasgic tongue.
        Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book I
        3
        For the derivation of the Latin from the Aeolic dialect of Greece, see "Scheid's Prolegomena to Lennep's Etymologicon Linguae Grecae."
        Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book II
        Translations for Aeolic dialect
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