Do you read
Aeolic Greek?"--without answering my question about the inscription.
In coastal dunes, characterized by a successive ontogenesis, grey dunes, although structurally similar may show extensive spatial correlation in environmental characteristics related to microclimate, soil properties and
aeolic dynamics (sand over-blowing).
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Aeolic,B Doric,C Gothic,D Hellenic pounds 32,000:Whose last words were belie ved to have been: ``Thank God I have done my duty''?
Do I need to know that "Syracuse was founded by the Corinthians, who worshipped Artemis?" Would Alcaeus really write, "When I think of beautiful green Lesbos, it merges in my mind with a vision of violet-haired Sappho or Psappho, as you call yourself in our beautiful
Aeolic dialect"?
These metrically unregulated (extrametrical) positions are known as the
Aeolic Base in Greek metrics (Maas 1962: section 33; Raven 1962: section 132).
I use the recent Powell translation because he attempts to "preserve Sappho's rhythms" (40) and her "
Aeolic measures [that] transfer into English with remarkable felicity" (41); his attention to rhythms and measures is important to my argument about H.D.'s syntax and diction.
aeolic Greek Aiolikos,literally, of the Aeolians, a people of ancient Greece