"Non secus ac liquidis Phrygiis Maeandros in arvis
Ludit, et ambiguo lapsu refluitque fluitque."
Cf. also Virgil's description of the Mincius (_Geo._ iii. 15):
--"tardis ingens ubi flexibus errat
Mincius."
"The first great metropolis of Hellenic intellectual life was Miletus
on the Mæander. Thales, Anaximander, Anaximines, Cadmus, Hecatæus,
etc., were all Milesians" (Hales).