The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.
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."
Translations for Aeolic dialect