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Æʹolus

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in Roman mythology, was “god of the winds.”

Æolian harp. The wind-harp. A box on which strings are stretched. Being placed where a draught gets to the strings, they utter musical sounds.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Ægis
Ægrotat
A E I (A—i)
Ælurus
Æmilian Law
Æmonia Æmonian
Æneas
Æneid
Æolic Digamma
Æolic Mode
Æolus
Æon (Greek, aion)
Æra
Aèrated Bread
Aërated Water
Aerians
Æschylus (Greek, Aισχνλoζ)
Æschylus of France
Æsculapius
Æsir
Æson’s Bath

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Æ`olus