After a few words of lamentation over his misfortunes addressed to the child, he took him by the hand, and proceeded to the covered walk which runs between the Maeander garden and the Palaestra, and leads to the entrance of the theatre.
All the cities on the Maeander were then ruined: since which, little of the history of Miletus has been known.
Further, theMaeander is associated with the sorrows of the maiden Byblis, who seeks her lost brother Caunus (called by Ovid Maeandrius juvenis).
Below is a band of rosettes; between the two panels is a band of maeander pattern.
There was an egg and tongue pattern on the lower moulding, and a maeander pattern on parts of the upper moulding.
At Magnesia on the Maeander an image of Dionysus is said to have been found in a plane-tree, which had been broken by the wind.
When a stranger happened to enter the corn-field or to pass by it, Lityerses gave him plenty to eat and drink, then took him to the corn-fields on the banks of the Maeander and compelled him to reap along with him.
A brook which flowed into the Maeander through the city Apamaea Cibotus, in the neighbourhood of Celaenae, was named after Marsyas.
Moreover, the mountain range which bounds the valley of the Maeander to the south, bears the Semitic name of Cadmus, i.
The Maeander valley is especially noted for its hot springs.
Earthquakes are frequent all over the peninsula, but especially in the south-east and west, where the Maeander valley and the Gulf of Smyrna are notorious seismic foci.
Maeander valley and all Phrygia, except the extreme north, were detached and added to Cilicia.
It is said that he was a native of Hierapolis in Phrygia, a town between the Maeander and a branch of the Maeander named the Lycus.
He captured Priene, but like his predecessor and his successor, he failed to snatch the most coveted prize of the Greek coast, the wealthy city Miletus at the Maeander mouth.
After an Assyrian attack on the Cimmerian flank or rear had brought about the death of the chief barbarian leader in the Cilician hills, and the dispersal of the storm, the Lydian marched down the Maeander again.
The lines above the design can be seen to have been painted on the wheel, as they go all round the vase; but the palmettes on the shoulder and maeander patterns above the design do not extend beyond it.
The slip is not extended to the shoulder, on which is a tongue-pattern in black; the maeander is careless.
On the large bell-shaped kraters the decoration almost invariably consists of a laurel-wreath round the lip, maeander below the designs, and palmette patterns under the handles; and every shape of vase has its characteristic decoration.
It is to be noted that the typical Athenian motives, the maeander and the ornamented square, do not occur; in fact, these bowls have no analogies in the Dipylon ware.
In most cases, however, the luxuriant palmette patterns under the handles form an adequate frame for the design with the maeander band below.
On the lustrous red wares the decoration is usually confined to simple patterns of concentric circles, vertical and horizontal, maeander crosses, lozenges and triangles.
Among the cities of the Greeks, Priene and Magnesia on the Maeander had been destroyed, and their inhabitants enslaved; Phocaea had been burned.
He invested Priene, took the city, and reduced the inhabitants to slavery; then the plain of the Maeander was laid waste, the city of Magnesia taken, and its inhabitants enslaved.
At a later time Magnesia on the Maeander was assigned to Themistocles--a city, which, recovering from the destruction by Mazares (p.
One main branch ran in a southwesterly direction through Apameia, Colossae, and thence by the broad and fertile valley of the River Maeander to Ephesus, the commercial and later the political capital of Asia Minor.
Other typical ornaments are the maeander and chevrons; ivy-leaves and sprigs shooting up from the ground; lotos-buds, and wreaths of all kinds.
The wide-bellied lekythi have palmettes or egg-pattern above the design, and maeander below.
One of the finest examples is a krater from Ruvo in the Jatta collection,[2391] with twisted handles and a very elaborate system of ornamentation, chiefly diaper and maeander patterns.
On the kylix, the ornament is throughout confined to the palmettes under the handles and the maeander encircling the interior design, which have been dealt with already (Vol.
A curious variety of the maeander is used by Duris; it consists of a double intersecting maeander interspersed with squares[2021] (Fig.
The consul started from Ephesus, levied contributions from the towns and princes on the upper Maeander and in Pamphylia without measure, and then turned northwards against the Celts.
Of the Antioch-on-Maeander aqueduct only a few clay-pipes remain, and the same is true of the aqueduct which was built by Carminius in the 2nd century A.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maeander" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
