MÆONIDES, a surname of Homer, because, according to the opinion of some writers, he was born in Mœonia, or because his father's name was Mœon.
MÆOTIS PALUS or LACUS, Mæotica Palus, or Mæoticus Lacus, in Ancient Geography, a large lake or part of the sea between Europe and Asia, at the north of the Euxine, to which it communicates by the Cimmerian Bosphorus. It was worshipped as a deity by the Massagete. It extends about 390 miles from south-west to north-east, and is about 600 miles in circumference. Still called Palus Mæotis, reaching from Crim Tartary to the mouth of the Don.