in Ancient Geography, a celebrated river of Asia Minor, rising near Celene. It flows through Caria and Ionia into the Aegean sea between Miletus and Priene, after it has been increased by the waters of the Mariyas, Lycus Eudon, Lethaus, &c. It is celebrated among the poets for its windings, which amount to not less than 600, and from which all obliquities have received the name of meanders. It forms in its course, according to the observation of some travellers, the Greek letters Ξξς & ω; and from its windings Daedalus is said to have had the first idea of his famous labyrinth.

MAEATÆ, anciently a people of Britain, near Severus's wall, inhabiting the district now called Lauderdale, in Scotland.