A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

ANDROMEDA.;
6. An ambassador of Ptolemy Philometor, sent
o Rome B. c. 154. (Polyb. xxxiii. 5.)
7. A Greek grammarian, quoted in the Scholia
pon Homer (II. v. 130), whom Corsini (Fast. Att.
Diss. vi. p. 386), without sufficient reasons,
upposed to be the author of the Etymologicum
lagnum. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vi. p. 601.)
8. A Greek rhetorician, who taught at Nicomeeia in the reign of Domitian. (Eudoc. p. 58;
nuid. s. v. 52piKCos.)
ANDRO'MACHUS ('Avsp6oaXos). 1. Comlonly called " the Elder," to distinguish him from
is son of the same name, was born in Crete, and was
hysician to Nero, A. D. 54-68. He -is principally,lebrated for having been the first person on whom
ie title of " Archiater" is known to have been
)nferred (Diet. of Ant. s. v. Archiater), and also
>r having been the inventor of a very famous
)mpound medicine and antidote, which was called
ter his name " Theriaca Andromachi,'' which
ing enjoyed a great reputation, and which retains
s place in some foreign Pharmacopoeias to the
resent day. (Diet. of Ant. s. v. Theriaca.) Anromachus has left us the directions for making
iis strange mixture in a Greek elegiac poem, consting of one hundred and seventy-four lines, and
sdicated to Nero. Galen has inserted it entire. two of his works (De Antid. i. 6, and De Ther.
I Pis. c. 6. vol. xiv. pp. 32-42), and says,;at Andromachus chose this form for his reipt as being more easily remembered than
uose, and less likely to be altered. The poem
is been published in a separate form by Franc.
idicaeus, Tiguri, 1607, 4to., with two Latin
anslations, one in prose and the other in verse;
id again by J. S. Leinker, Norimb. 1754, fol.
is also inserted in the first volume of Ideler's
Itysici et Medici Graeci Minores, Berol. 8vo. 1841.
tere is a German translation in E. W. Weber's
egyisclhe Dichter der HIellenen, Frankfort, 1826,
'o. Some persons suppose him to be the author
a work on pharmacy, but this 'is generally attri-.ted to his son, Andromachus the Younger.
2. The Younger, so called to distinguish him from
3 father of the same name, was the son of the preling, and is supposed to have been also physician
Nero, A. D. 54-68. Nothing is known of the
ents of his life, but he is generally supposed to
ve been the author of a work on pharmacy in
rce books (Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec.
in. ii. 1. vol. xiii. p. 463), which is quoted very
quently and with approbation by Galen, but of
iich only a few fragments remain. [W. A. G.]
ANDRO'MEDA ('Avupoisan?), a daughter of
- Aethiopian king Cepheus and Cassiopeia. Her,ther boasted of her beauty, and said that she
passed the Nereids. The latter prevailed on
seidon to visit the country by an inundation,
I a sea-monster was sent into the land. The
cle of Ammon promised that the people should
delivered from these calamities, if Andromeda
s given up to the monster; and Cepheus, being
iged to yield to the wishes of his people, chainAndromeda to a rock. Here she was found
I saved by Perseus, who slew the monster and
ained her as his wife. (Apollod. ii. 4. ~ 3;
-gin. Fab. 64; Ov. Met. iv. 663, &c.) Androda had previously been promised to Phineus
yginus calls him Agenor), and this gave rise to
ftnamous fight of Phineus and Perseus at the
tding, in which the former and all his associates

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were slain. (Ov. Met. v. 1, &c.) [PnERSUS.]
Andromeda thus became the wife of Perseus, and
bore him many children. (Apollod. ii. 4. ~ 5.)
Athena placed her among the stars, in the form of
a maiden with her arms stretched out and chained
to a rock, to commemorate her delivery by Perseus.
(Hygin. Poet. Astr. ii. 10, &c.; Eratosth. Cutast.
17; Arat Phaen. 198.) Conon (Narrat. 40)
gives a wretched attempt at an historical interpretation of this mythus. The scene where Andromeda was fastened to the. rock is placed by some
of the ancients in the neighbourhood of lope in
Phoenicia, while others assign to it a place of the
same name in Aethiopia. The tragic poets often
made the story of Andromeda the subject of dramas,
which are now lost. The moment in which she
is relieved from the rock by Perseus is represented
in an anaglyph still extant. (Les plus beaux
Muonmesens de Rome, No. 63.) [L. S.]
ANDRON ("Ai/3pwc). 1. Of Alexandria,
whose work entitled Xpoviucda is referred to by
Athenaeus. (iv. p. 184, b.)
2. Of Ephesus, who wrote a work on the
Seven Sages of Greece, which seems to have been
entitled Tphirovs. (Diog. Laert. i. 30, 119; Schol.
ad Pind. Isth. ii. 17; Clem. Alex. Strom. i. p. 332,
b.; Suid. and Phot. s. v. auuiowv 6 Sjtilos; Euseb.
Praep. Ev. x. 3.)
3. Of Halicarnassus, a Greek historian, who is
mentioned by Plutarch (Thes.c. 25) in consjunction
with Hellanicus. (Comp. Tzetzes, ad Lycophr.
894, 1283; Schol. ad Aescl. Pers. 183.)
4. Of Teos, the author of a Ilepinrous (Schol.
ad Apoll. Rhod. ii. 354), who is probably the same
person as the one referred to by Strabo (ix. pp.
392, 456, 475), Stephanus of Byzantium, and
others. He may also have been the same as the
author of the IepI 2UvyYYEveIv. (Harpocrat. s. v.
(opavT~Eov; Schol. ad Apoll. Rhod. ii. 946.)
Comp. Vossius, De Histor. Graec. p. 285, ed.
Westermann.
ANDRON ("AYvpwe), a sculptor, whose age
and country are unknown, made a statue of Harmonia, the daughter of Mars and Venus. (Tatian,
Orat. in Graec. 55, p. 119, Worth.) [P. S.]
ANDRON ("Ai,'pcvv), a Greek physician, who
is supposed by Tiraquellus (De Nobilitate, c. 31),
and after him by Fabricius (Bibl. Gr. vol. xiii.
p. 58, ed. vet.), to be the same person as Andreas
of Carystus [ANDREAS]; this, however, is a mistake which has arisen from their reading Andron
in Pliny (II. N. xx. 76) instead of Andreas. He
is mentioned by Athenaeus (xv. p. 680, e.), and
seieral of his medical prescriptions are preserved
by Celsus, Galen, Caelius Aurelianus, Oribasius,
Afltius, Paulus Aegineta, and other ancient writers.
None of his works are in existence, nor is anything known of the events of his life; and with
respect to his date, it can only be said with certainty that, as Celsus is the earliest author who
mentions him (De Med. v. 20, vi. 14, 18, pp. 92,
132, 133, 134), he must have lived some time before the beginning of the Christian era. (Le Clerc,
Hist. de la Mid.; C. G. K'ihn, Index Medicorum
Oculariorums inter Graecos Romanosque, Fascic. i.
p. 4, Lips., 4to., 1829.) [W. A. G.]
ANDRONICIA'NUS (AvapoVIKuvds), wrote
two books against the Eunomiani. (Phot. Cod. 45.)
ANDRONICUS ('Avpo'vIucos), ambassador of
ATTALUS, sent to Rome in a. c. 156, to inform the
Ssenate that Prusias had attacked the territories of