a. Of or belonging to Aonia, a region of ancient Bœotia, which contained the mountains Helicon and Cithaeron, sacred to the Muses or ‘Aonian maids.’
1607. Topsell, Four-footed Beasts (1673), 54. The Aonian oxen are of divers colours.
1667. Milton, P. L., I. 15. Above th’ Aonian mount.
1741. Pope, Messiah, 4. The dreams of Pindus and th’ Aonian maids.
