ÆOLIC, or Aeolian, in Grammar, the name of one of the five Dialects of the Greek Tongue. See GREEK, and DIALECT. It was first used in Boeotia; whence it passed into Lesvos, and was that which Sappho and Alcaeus wrote in. The Aeolic Dialect throws out all the sharp, harsh Accents; and agrees in so many things with the Doric Dialect, that the two are usually confounded together. See DORIC.
Aeolic, or Aeolian Mode, in Music, See MODE.
