Meanings of aeolic in английском

The first is light-colored and occupies aeolic pale sand dunes, while the second is brownish and lives in a darker sandy habitat.

The only ancient parallel is in the period of the Aeolic Greek civilisation which produced Sappho.

He wrote in the broad Spartan dialect with a mixture of the Aeolic, and in various metres.

Alcaeus composed in the Aeolic dialect; for the reason, it is said, that it was more familiar to his hearers.

The Latium Antiquum of Pliny and the Aeolic of the Autochthones of Greece present the closest kinship, we are told.

For this likewise is an Æolic saying, The taste of the first olive is unpleasant, but the second is good.

Strabo and Pausanias alike affirm the Aeolians to be Pelasgic, and in the Aeolic dialect we approach to the Pelasgic tongue.

For the derivation of the Latin from the Aeolic dialect of Greece, see "Scheid's Prolegomena to Lennep's Etymologicon Linguae Grecae."

They all consorted together, talking various dialects of Aeolic, Ionian, Attic Greek, and so forth, which were plainly not intelligible to each other.

Let us bear in mind that the Aeolic was neither the language of Aeschylus, nor the Attic, nor even the old speech of Homer.

The Æolic genitive has saved for us another of these sorrow-ladensentences which Mr. Swinburne has amplified in some beautiful but too wordy lines.

Besides these there were men of Aeolic race, the Methymnians, subjects who provided ships, not tribute, and the Tenedians and Aenians who paid tribute.