Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Maeander

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

MAEAN'DER, MEAN'DROS, or MAEAN'DRUS (μαίανδρος). A Greek ornament designed, as it were, in imitation of the peculiarly winding course of the river Meander, from which it derived its name. (Festus s. v. Serv. ad Virg. Aen. v. 250. Strabo xii. 7. 15.) It is often employed as a border for dresses, round the edges of fictile vases, and as an architectural decoration; of which latter kind the annexed example (Maeander/1.1) affords an instance, from a small brick building near Rome, which goes by the name of the temple del Dio Redicolo.

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