(adjective) : Maeander (Maeandros or Mae-andrus), dri, m., = Μαιανδρος
* A river, proverbial for its winding course, which rises in Great Phrygia, flows between Lydia and Caria, and falls, near Miletus, into the Icarian Sea, now Mendere Su; nom. Maeander, Liv. 38, 13, 7; Sen. Ep. 104, 15; Plin. 2, 85, 87, § 201; 5, 29, 31, § 113; Claud. Eutr. 2, 266; Avien. Perieg. 999: Maeandros,Ov. M. 2, 246; 8, 162; id. H. 9, 55: Maeandrus,Sil. 7, 139; Paul. ex Fest. p. 136 Müll.; acc. Maeandrum, Liv. 38, 12; 13: Maeandron,Luc. 3, 208: more Maeandri,i. e. with turnings and windings,Col. 8, 17, 11.
* Personified, acc. to the fable, the father of Cyane, and grandfather of Caunus and Byblis, Ov. M. 9, 450.
* Transf. (from the windings of the Maeander), as an appellative, and hence also in the plur.
* A crooked or roundabout way, a turning, twisting, winding, meandering, maze, etc.: quos tu Maeandros, quae deverticula flexionesque quaesisti?Cic. Pis. 22, 53; Amm. 30, 1, 12; cf. Ov. M. 2, 246; 8, 162 sqq.; Sil. 7, 139; Sen. Herc. Fur. 683: in illis dialecticae gyris atque Maeandris,Gell. 16, 8, 17: Maeandros faciebat et gyros, etc.,Amm. 30, 1: Mĕandros,Prud. Cath. 6, 142.
* Maeandrĭus, a, um, , = Μαιάνδριος.
* Of or belonging to Maeander, Maeandrian: juvenis Maeandrius,i. e. Caunus, the grandson of Maeander,Ov. M. 9, 573.
* Maeandrĭcus, a, um, adj., Maeandrian (acc. to I. B. 2.): fluxus,Tert. Pall. 4 med.—*
* Maeandrātus, a, um, adj., full of curves like the Maeander, Maeandrian: facies Maeandrata et vermiculata, Varr. ap. Non. 140, 5 (Sat. Men. 86, 14).