Æolia

See also: Aeolia

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ē.ōʹlĭə, IPA^(key): /iːˈəʊlɪə/

Proper noun

Æolia

1. Archaic form of Aeolia.
   • 1885, Samuel Johnson, Octavius Brooks Frothingham, edited by Augustus Mellen Haskell, Oriental Religions and Their Relation to Universal Religion, Houghton, Mifflin, and company, page 315:

     […] the rifling of continents, watched by unsexed guards, the last refinement of jealousy and the self‐irony of lust; their tables spread for fifteen thousand daily, though the king himself dined alone, and often frugally; their water brought in silver from the Choaspes, their salt from the Libyan desert, their wine from Syria, and their wheat from Æolia; a thousand pounds of incense came yearly from Arabia; from Armenia tens of thousands of horses and hundreds of thousands of sheep; from Assyria five hundred eunuch-boys to serve at feasts; where, too, they had large towns, all whose revenues went for breeding dogs, and royal stables on an enormous scale; and the daily tribute to the satrap amounted to a bushel of silver.

   • 1886, Virgil and John Conington (translator), The Æneid of Virgil, page 5 (Armstrong):

     […] Such fiery tumult in her mind,
     She seeks the birthplace of the wind,
     Æolia, realm for ever rife
     With turbid elemental life :
     Here Æolus in a cavern vast
     With bolt and barrier fetters fast […]