Æolia

English

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: ē.ōʹlĭə, IPA: /iːˈəʊlɪə/, X-SAMPA: /i:"@UlI@/

Proper noun

Æolia

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of Aeolia.
   • 1885 CE, Samuel Johnson, Augustus Mellen Haskell [ed.], and Octavius Brooks Frothingham, Oriental Religions and Their Relation to Universal Religion, page #315 (Houghton, Mifflin, and company):

     […] 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 CE, Virgil and John Conington [tr.], 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 […]