On the subject of the Ætolian polity, he calls the present Locri, Leleges, and observes that they occupy Bœotia.
Some of the Ætolian promontories were formerly islands.
He is the son of Œneus, Tydeus, and bears on his breast the Ætolian Mars.
The Ætolian League, which just then was very strong, now sent an army across the isthmus to attack the Spartans.
He led the warriors from the Ætolian shore, For now the sons of OEneus were no more!
Lay down the hope ye had to gain Ætolian war-array; Let each man be his proper hope.
The Ætolian and his Arpi host help not our battle-shock.
The power of the Ætolian league was thus forever crushed, though it seems to have existed, in name at least, till a much later period.
When the ambassador had returned thence, bringing word that the Ætolian arms had been refused them, the Rutulians carried on the warfare prepared for, without their forces; and much blood was shed on either side.
The Ætolian league had bound itself to Antiochus and was forming a union out of some states that were willing and others that were unwilling.
In view of these events he conceived a suspicion of Ætolian loyalty and began to fear for his interests at home, and he hastened thither with the larger part of his army.
What helps it now that Byron bore, With haughty scorn which mocked the smart, Through Europe to the Ætolian shore The pageant of his bleeding heart?
But he mentions the Ætolian Olenus in these words; “those who occupied Pleuron and Olenus.
This river (at its mouth) is the boundary of the Ætolian and the Acarnanian coast.
There also is Chalcis, mentioned by the poet[474] in the Ætolian Catalogue.
Again, on the other hand, the Curetes have been mistaken for an Ætolian people, bearing the same name.
Such was Ætolian Tydeus; who begat 475 A son in speech his better, not in arms.
Epean none or even Pylian there Could cope with me, or yet Ætolian bold.
Nor Pirus long survived; him through the breast 625 Above the pap, Ætolian Thoas pierced, And in his lungs set fast the quivering spear.
Forty ships were manned by the Elians, under four different chiefs; the like number under Meges from Dulichium and the Echinades, and under Thoas from Calydon and the other Ætolian towns.
About the same time Scopas, who had lately led back to Alexandria his Ætolian mercenaries, so far showed signs of discontent and disobedience that the minister, Aristomenes, began to suspect him of planning resistance to the government.
They had acquired possession of the Ætolian district of Kalydon, had brought the neighboring villagers into a city residence, and garrisoned it as a dependence of the Achæan confederacy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tolian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
