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MENALON (Mountain) LEVIDI
Maenalus. (Mainalos, Strab. viii. p. 388; Schol. ad Apoll. Rhod. i. 769; Mainalon,
Theocr. i. 123; to Mainalion oros, Paus. viii. 36. § 7; Maenalus, Virg. Ecl. viii.
22; Mel. ii. 3; Plin. iv. 6. s. 10; Maenala, pl., Virg. Ecl. x. 55; Ov. Met. i.
216), a lofty mountain of Arcadia, forming the western boundary of the territories
of Mantineia and Tegea. It was especially sacred to the god Pan, who is hence
called Maenalius Deus (Ov. Fast. iv. 650.) The inhabitants of the mountain fancied
that they had frequently heard the god playing on his pipe. The two highest summits
of the mountain are called at present Aidin and Apano-Khrepa: the latter is 5115
feet high. The mountain is at present covered with pines and firs; the chief pass
through it is near the modern town of Tripolitza. The Roman poets frequently use
the adjectives Maenalius and Maenalis as equivalent to Arcadian. Hence Maenalii
versus, shepherds' songs, such as were usual in Arcadia (Virg. Ecl. viii.21);
Maenalis ora, i.e. Arcadia (Ov. Fast. iii. 84); Maenalisnympha, i. e. Carmenta
(Ov. Fast. i. 634); Maenalis Ursa, and Maenalia Arctos, the constellation of the
Bear, into which Callisto, daughter of Lycaon, king of Arcadia, was said to have
been metamorphosed. (Ov. Trist. iii. 11. 8, Fast. ii. 192.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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