One, called the Aeolic, flourished among the. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities] Reference
And that this Aeolic speaking poet was a Boeotian of. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
Alcaeus were natives of Lesbos in Aeolia, and wrote in the Aeolic dialect. From Wordnik.com. [The Illustrated London Reading Book] Reference
Besides these there were men of Aeolic race, the Methymnians, subjects who provided ships, not tribute, and the Tenedians and Aenians who paid tribute. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference
The palmette capitals of the tree-like columns are not lotus-blossom capitals, as Weinberg and other classicists once supposed, much less “proto-Aeolic” capitals as William F. Albright thought. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
The Roman idiom, by an infusion of Doric and Aeolic. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
Hammond, N. G. (1989) - Aeolic, of the western Greek language. From Wordnik.com. [American Chronicle] Reference
This poem, like the preceding one, is written in the Aeolic dialect. From Wordnik.com. [Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose] Reference
Three dialects of the Greek language were best known: Doric, Ionic and Aeolic. From Wordnik.com. [American Chronicle] Reference
The Doric, a variety of the Aeolic, characterized by its strength, was spoken in Peloponnesus, and in the. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities] Reference
Besides these there were men of Aeolic race, the Methymnians, subjects who provided ships, not tribute, and the Tenedians and. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference
Did the Athenians consider the Doric, the Ionian, the Aeolic, and other dialects, as disfiguring or as beautifying their language?. From Wordnik.com. [Letters] Reference
The Greek language comprised the following, notable dialects in the classical Antiquity: Ionic, Aeolic, Arcadian-Cyprian, Doric, and Northwest Greek. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
They all consorted together, talking various dialects of Aeolic, Ionian, Attic Greek, and so forth, which were plainly not intelligible to each other. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures Among Books] Reference
Patroclus is buried, he says, in a true portion of the old Aeolic epic (Sir Richard Jebb thought the whole passage "Ionic"), though even into this the late. From Wordnik.com. [Homer and His Age] Reference
According to Hammond (1989, p. 13), the Macedonians spoke an Aeolic dialect of the western Greek language that was later modified by Philip and spread to Asia by Alexander. From Wordnik.com. [American Chronicle] Reference
This little piece of Aeolic verse accompanied the present of a distaff which Theocritus brought from Syracuse to Theugenis, the wife of his friend Nicias, the physician of Miletus. From Wordnik.com. [Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose] Reference
Yet in contrast with earlier views which made of it an Aeolic dialect (O. Hoffmann compared Thessalian) we must by now think of a link with North-West Greek (Locrian, Aetolian, Phocidian, Epirote). From Wordnik.com. [American Chronicle] Reference
Doric was intended to be executed by choruses ', and to be sung to choral dances; while the Aeolic was recited by a single person, who accompanied his recitation with a stringed instrument, generally the lyre. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities] Reference
Ionian exiles and the Lesbians with the expedition began to urge him, since this seemed too dangerous, to seize one of the Ionian cities or the Aeolic town of Cyme, to use as a base for effecting the revolt of Ionia. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference
Aeolic of Alcaeus and Sappho, the Doric of choral lyric poetry, etc.). From Wordnik.com. [LINGUISTICS] Reference
"The relationship of the Avesta language to the most ancient Sanskrit, the so-called Vedic dialect, is as close as that of the different dialects of the Greek language, Aeolic, Ionic, Doric or Attic, to each other. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)] Reference
Typos may yet remain, especially with the Aeolic. From Wordnik.com. [More on the "new" Sappho] Reference
Aeolic song to the Italian lyre, "on which he subsequently rested his hopes of posthumous fame. From Wordnik.com. [Horace] Reference
9. (initial capital letter) Also called Old Ionic. the Greek dialect represented in the Iliad and the Odyssey, apparently Aeolic modified by Ionic. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
600 B.C.) the other leader of the Aeolic school of poetry, was the object of the admiration of all antiquity. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities] Reference
5) Norma Franklin who discussed the so-called "Proto-Aeolic capitals" of the Iron Age, claiming, very logically, that none of them were actually capitals! ". From Wordnik.com. [BiblePlaces Blog] Reference
Aeolic architecture. From Wordnik.com. [Subject Index Page 2] Reference
Aeolic. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities] Reference
Aeolic song to modulate. From Wordnik.com. [Horace] Reference
Aeolic, Arcadian-Cyprian, Doric, and Northwest Greek. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
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