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  • 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. The History of the Peloponnesian War
  • We can imagine, therefore, that among such folk a settler, of Aeolic origin like Hesiod, who clearly was well acquainted with the Ionian epos, would naturally see that the only outlet for his gifts lay in applying epic poetry to new themes acceptable to his hearers. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
  • First, as for the word bulimy, it was agreed upon by all to denote a great and public famine, especially among us who use the Aeolic dialect, putting [Greek omitted] for [Greek omitted]. Essays and Miscellanies
  • We can imagine, therefore, that among such folk a settler, of Aeolic origin like Hesiod, who clearly was well acquainted with the Ionian epos, would naturally see that the only outlet for his gifts lay in applying epic poetry to new themes acceptable to his hearers. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
  • 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. Archive 2008-02-01
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  • But I look at some of the Greats with a capital G of the past — take Sappho (who has come up in another conversation), who wrote in an Aeolic dialect of ancient Greek — in an island vernacular — for what must have been the tiniest of audiences by our standards. Anxiety, a rant in three fits : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
  • And that this Aeolic speaking poet was a Boeotian of Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
  • Aeolic, Sappho's dialect, didn't have initial rough breathings, so the article would be "o," not "ho. Sappho in Greek! And did the Romans "invade" Britain?
  • Besides these there were men of Aeolic race, the Methymnians, subjects who provided ships, not tribute, and the Tenedians and Aenians who paid tribute. The History of the Peloponnesian War
  • [Keil.v. II.p. 11.] [Greek letter: digamma] Aeolicum _digamma_, quod apud antiquissimos Latinorum eandem vim quam apud Aeolis habuit. The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it
  • 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. Archive 2008-02-01
  • While the Peloponnesians were in the Hellespont, the Antandrians, a people of Aeolic extraction, conveyed by land across Mount Ida some heavy infantry from Abydos, and introduced them into the town; having been ill-treated by Arsaces, the Persian lieutenant of The History of the Peloponnesian War
  • Isosyllabism persists, however, in such primitive Aeolic meters as the Sapphic hendecasyllable.
  • First, as for the word bulimy, it was agreed upon by all to denote a great and public famine, especially among us who use the Aeolic dialect, putting [Greek omitted] for [Greek omitted]. Symposiacs
  • Alcaeus were natives of Lesbos in Aeolia, and wrote in the Aeolic dialect The Illustrated London Reading Book

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