MÆANDER, (anc. geog.), a river rising in Phrygia from a common source with the Marfyas near Celæne, according to Maximus Tyrus an eye-witness: remarkable for its windings, (Ovid); whence the proper name Mæander is become an appellative. It runs from east to west, till it discharges itself into the Ægean sea, about a mile from Miletus. A narrow river, but very deep, (Calaber); running calm, and fertilizing the country, as it passes along, with its mud, (Pliny).