Andron, an Argive, who travelled all over the deserts of Libya without drink. [♦]Aristotle’s book on Drunkenness [quoted in Apollonius] “Historiæ Mirabiles”.——A man set over the citadel of Syracuse by Dionysius. Hermocrates advised him to seize it and revolt from the tyrant, which he refused to do. The tyrant put him to death for not discovering that Hermocrates had incited him to rebellion. Polyænus, bk. 5, ch. 2.——A man of Halicarnassus, who composed some historical works. Plutarch, Theseus.——A native of Ephesus, who wrote an account of the seven wise men of Greece. Diogenes Laërtius.——A man of Argos.——Another of Alexandria, &c. Apollonius [Paradoxographus], Historiæ Mirabiles, ch. 25.—Athenæus.
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Andronīcus Livius. See: [Livius].
Andronīcus, a peripatetic philosopher of Rhodes, who flourished 59 years B.C. He was the first who published and revised the works of Aristotle and Theophrastus. His periphrasis is extant, the best edition of which is that of Heinsius, 8vo, Leiden, 1617. Plutarch, Sulla.——A Latin poet in the age of Cæsar.——A Latin grammarian, whose life Suetonius has written.——A king of Lydia, surnamed Alpyus.——One of Alexander’s officers.——One of the officers of Antiochus Epiphanes.——An astronomer of Athens, who built a marble octagonal tower in honour of the eight principal winds, on the top of which was placed a Triton with a stick in his hand, pointing always to the side whence the wind blew.
Androphăgi, a savage nation of European Scythia. Herodotus, bk. 4, chs. 18, 102.
Andropompus, a Theban who killed Xanthus in a single combat by fraud. Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 18.
Andros, an island in the Ægean sea, known by the different names of Epagrys, Antandros, Lasia, Cauros, Hydrussa, Nonagria. Its chief town was called Andros. It had a harbour, near which Bacchus had a temple, with a fountain, whose waters, during the ides of January, tasted like wine. It received the name of Andros from Andros son of Anius, one of its kings, who lived in the time of the Trojan war. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 13, li. 648.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 3, li. 80.—Juvenal, satire 3, li. 70.—Pliny, bk. 2, ch. 103.—Mela, bks. 1 & 2.
Androsthĕnes, one of Alexander’s generals, sent with a ship on the coast of Arabia. Arrian, bk. 7, ch. 10.—Strabo, bk. 16.——A governor of Thessaly, who favoured the interest of Pompey. He was conquered by Julius Cæsar. Cæsar, Civil War, bk. 3, ch. 80.——A statuary of Thebes. Pausanias, bk. 10, ch. 19.——A geographer in the age of Alexander.
Androtrion, a Greek, who wrote a history of Attica, and a treatise on agriculture. Pliny.—Pausanias, bk. 10, ch. 8.
Anelontis, a river near Colophon. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 28.