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Aeolian |
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aeolian [iːˈəʊlɪən] adj of or relating to the wind; produced or carried by the wind [from Aeolus, god of the winds] Aeolian, Eolian [iːˈəʊlɪən] n (Social Science / Peoples) a member of a Hellenic people who settled in Thessaly and Boeotia and colonized Lesbos and parts of the Aegean coast of Asia Minor adj 1. (Linguistics / Languages) (Social Science / Peoples) of or relating to this people or their dialect of Ancient Greek; Aeolic 2. (Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) of or relating to Aeolus 3. (Music / Classical Music) denoting or relating to an authentic mode represented by the ascending natural diatonic scale from A to A: the basis of the modern minor key See also Hypo-
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| It is as though the Aeolian harps had caught some strayed wind from an unknown world, and brought strange messages from peopled stars. Thence we went on to the Aeolian island where lives Aeolus son of Hippotas, dear to the immortal gods. A strange roseate light shone through the spaces among their trunks and the wind made in their branches the music of AEolian harps. |
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