Aeolii

Aeŏlĭus, a, um, adj., = Aiolios, pertaining to Æolus, Æolia, or Æolis, Æolian.

I.

Pertaining to Æolus, the god of the winds, or to his posterity; Euri, Ov. Am. 3, 12, 29:

venti,

Tib. 4, 1, 58: aurum, the golden fleece (of the ram) on which Phrixus and Helle, the grandchildren of Æolus, fled, Vai. Fl. 8, 79: virgo, i. e. Arne or Canace, Ov. M. 6, 116:

postes, i. e. fores domūs Athamantis Aeoli filii,

id. ib. 4, 486. —

II.

Pertaining to Æolia or Æolis:

insulae,

Plin. 36, 21, 42, § 154:

pontus,

Sil. 14, 233.— Aeŏlii, ōrum, m., = Aeoles, the Æolians, the inhabitants of Æolia, in Asia Minor, Vell. 1, 4; Mela, 1, 18, 1.—Hence,

III.

Pertaining to the Æolians: puella, i. e. Sappho, as a Lesbian woman, Hor. C. 4, 9, 12: carmen, a Sapphic or Alcaic ode, id. ib. 4, 3, 12; cf.:

Aeoliis fidibus querentem Sappho,

id. ib. 2, 13, 24;

lyra,

Ov. H. 15, 200:

plectrum,

Prop. 2, 3, 19.