Aeolism

Examines features of Homeric language, especially the question of aeolisms and fixed epithets, and concludes that some Homeric words were preserved from the Mycenaean age as a result of oral epic technique, a conclusion later supported by decipherment of Linear B.

In winter, too, There is grand aeolism upon my hills, When the blast sweeps the pine-boughs, and wails forth In long-drawn sobs and shrieking semitones.

After them we have the minor climatic characteristics (texture, irrigation, vegetation, aeolism), namely those determined by the atmosphere, which thus forms the intermediary between the major and minor features.