=Æŏlia=, or =Æolis=, a country of Asia Minor, near the Ægean sea. It has Troas at the north, and Ionia at the south. The inhabitants were of Grecian origin, and were masters of many of the neighbouring islands. They had 12, others say 30, considerable cities, of which Cumæ and Lesbos were the most famous. They received their name from Æolus son of Hellenus. They migrated from Greece about 1124 B.C., 80 years before the migration of the Ionian tribes. _Herodotus_, bk. 1, ch. 26, &c.――_Strabo_, bks. 1, 2, & 6.――_Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 30.――_Mela_, bk. 1, chs. 2 & 18.――――Thessaly has been anciently called Æolia. Bœotus son of Neptune, having settled there, called his followers Bœotians, and their country Bœotia. =Æoliæ= and =Æolĭdes=, seven islands between Sicily and Italy, called Lipara, Hiera, Strongyle, Didyme, Ericusa, Phœnicusa, and Euonymos. They were the retreat of the winds; and _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 1, li. 56, calls them Æolia, and the kingdom of Æolus the god of storms and winds. They sometimes bear the name of _Vulcaniæ_ and _Hephæstides_, and are known now among the moderns under the general appellation of Lipari islands. _Lucan_, bk. 5, li. 609.――_Justin_, bk. 4, ch. 1. =Æolĭda=, a city of Tenedos.――――Another near Thermopylæ. _Herodotus_, bk. 8, ch. 35. =Æolĭdes=, a patronymic of Ulysses, from Æolus; because Anticlea, his mother, was pregnant by Sisyphus the son of Æolus, when she married Laertes. It is also given to Athamas and Misenus, as sons of Æolus. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 4, li. 511; bk. 13, li. 31.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 6, lis. 164 & 529. =Æŏlus=, the king of storms and winds, was the son of Hippotas. He reigned over Æolia; and because he was the inventor of sails, and a great astronomer, the poets have called him the god of the wind. It is said that he confined in a bag, and gave Ulysses all the winds that could blow against his vessel, when he returned to Ithaca. The companions of Ulysses untied the bag, and gave the winds their liberty. Æolus was indebted to Juno for his royal dignity, according to Virgil. The name seems to be derived from αἰολος, _varius_, because the winds, over which he presided, are ever varying.―――― There were two others, a king of Etruria, father to Macareus and Canace, and a son of Hellenus, often confounded with the god of the winds. This last married Enaretta, by whom he had seven sons and five daughters. _Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 7.――_Homer_, _Odyssey_, bk. 10, li. 1.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 11, li. 478; bk. 14, li. 224.――_Apollonius_, bk. 4, _Argonautica_.――_Flaccus_, bk. 1, li. 556.――_Diodorus_, bks. 4 & 5.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 1, li. 56, &c. =Æōra=, a festival at Athens, in honour of Erigone. =Æpālius=, a king of Greece, restored to his kingdom by Hercules, whose son Hyllus he adopted. _Strabo_, bk. 9. =Æpēa=, a town of Crete, called Solis, in honour of Solon. _Plutarch_, _Solon_.