Μαίανδρος

Notes (3)

1. 1cf. under alpha 1288; see OCD(4) s.v. Maeander; and for its lower course -- so winding as to give rise to the English verb meander -- Barrington Atlas map 61 grids E2-G2. ↩
2. 2Greek Anthology 6.110.2 (attributed to Leonidas of Tarentum↗ or Mnasalces), a dedication by a hunter who kills a deer; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 137), (vol. II, 393), and further extracts from this epigram at sigma 160 and phi 683. Gow and Page note (vol. I, 137) that both the Anthologia Palatina (AP) and the Anthologia Planudea (ms. A) attribute this epigram to both the Tarentine and to Mnasalces. Gow and Page dismiss the attribution to Mnasalces by the AP scribe designated C (the Corrector) as a simple marginal expediency in the course of redaction (vol. II, 393). They conclude (ibid.) that there appears to be no valid reason to deny that Leonidas had been the author, since the quatrain does not stylistically resemble any of Mnasalces's surviving epigrams. ↩
3. 3The latter phrase is more commonly found as 'plain of Maiandros' (in the Suda see under gamma 472, delta 1289, tau 1084). ↩