Maeander
A celebrated river of Asia Minor flowing into the Aegean Sea. It is famous among the poets for its windings, and from it the application of the word " meandering" to a winding stream has become proverbial.
Maecenas or Mecaenas, C. Clinius. A celebrated Roman knight, who rendered himself immortal by his liberal patronage of learned men. To the interference of Maecenas, Vergil was indebted for the restitution of his lands. Maecenas, according to the received opinion, wrote a history of animals and a a journal of the life of Augustus. Vergil dedicated his Georgics to him, as did Horace his Odes.