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."