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