- Æolia
- noun /iːˈəʊlɪə/a) Æolis.
[…] the rifling of continents, watched by unsexed guards, the last refinement of jealousy and the self‐irony of lust ; their tables spread for fifteen thousand daily, though the king himself dined alone, and often frugally ; their water brought in silver from the Choaspes, their salt from the Libyan desert, their wine from Syria, and their wheat from Æolia ; a thousand pounds of incense came yearly from Arabia ; from Armenia tens of thousands of horses and hundreds of thousands of sheep ; from Assyria five hundred eunuch-boys to serve at feasts ; where, too, they had large towns, all whose revenues went for breeding dogs, and royal stables on an enormous scale ; and the daily tribute to the satrap amounted to a bushel of silver.
[…] Such fiery tumult in her mind,She seeks the birthplace of the wind,Æolia, realm for ever rifeWith turbid elemental life :Here Æolus in a cavern vastWith bolt and barrier fetters fast […]
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