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Aeolic
or E·ol·ic
[ ee-ol-ik ]
adjective
- Architecture. noting or pertaining to a capital used in the Greek territories of the eastern Aegean in the 7th and 6th centuries b.c., having two volutes rising from a shaft in opposite directions, and often having below them two convex rings of leaf ornament in the form of water-lily buds.
Aeolic
/ iːˈəʊlɪk; iːˈɒlɪk /
adjective
- of or relating to the Aeolians or their dialect
noun
- one of four chief dialects of Ancient Greek, spoken chiefly in Thessaly, Boeotia, and Aeolis
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It is to be remembered that as a patronymic Τελαμώνιος is an Aeolic formation.
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We may assume then that they were not transmitted in written Aeolic.
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And what need is there for supposing that an Aeolic poem must contain any Aeolic characters at all?
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In the Iliad, as we have it, only a small proportion of the characters at most can be regarded as Aeolic.
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The other Aeolic and Ionic leaders are distinctly less prominent.
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