Aeolides

• patr. m., = Αἰολίδης, a male descendant of Aeolus: his son Sisyphus, Ov. M. 13, 26; Athamas, id. ib. 4, 511; Salmoneus, Ov. Ib. 473; his grandson Cephalus, M. 7, 672; also Ulysses, whose mother, Anticlea, is said to have had intercourse with Sisyphus before her marriage with Laertes, Verg. A. 6, 529; also Phrixus, Val. Fl. 1, 286.

(Αἰολίδης), a patronymic given to the sons of Acolus, as Athamas (Ov. Met. 4.511), Magnes (Paus. 6.21.7), Macareus (Ov. Met. 9.506). Misenus (Verg. A. 6.164), Sisyphus (Ov. Met. 13.26; Hom. Il. 6.154), Cretheus (Hom. Od. 11.237), locastus (Tzetz. ad Lycophr. 732); and to his grandsons, as Cephalus (Ov. Met. 6.621), Odysseus (Verg. A. 6.529), and Phryxus. (V. Fl. 1.286.) Acolis is the patronymic of the female descendants of Aeolus, and is given to his daughters Canace and Alcyone. (Ov. Met. 11.573; Heroid. 11.5.) [L.S]

(Αἰολίδης). A patronymic applied to various individuals, of whom the most important are Sisyphus, son of Aeolus; Odysseus, to whom it is given because his mother, Anticlea, was pregnant by Aeolus when she married Laertes; and Misenus, the follower of Aeneas, who was called so figuratively, from his skill in blowing the trumpet. The feminine form is Aeolis.