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303. Andromeda. A northern constellation surrounded by Pegasus, Ca iopeia, Perseus, Pisces, Aries, etc., supposed to represent the figure of a woman chained. The constellation contains three stars of the second magnitude, of which the brightest is Alpheratz. Andromède (on-drō-mad'). A play by Corneille, first acted in 1650. Andronica (än-drō-nē'kä). One of the handmaids of Log i still a (Reason) in Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso." She represents fortitude. Andronicus (an-drō-nikus) I. Comnenus. [MGr. Ανδρόνικος Κομνηνός.] Born about 1110: died at Constantinople, Sept. 12, 1185. Byzantine emperor 1183-85, grandson of Alexius I. Comnenus. Having contrived to get himself appointed regent during the minority of Alexius II., he put the prince and his mother, the empre Maria, to death, and ascended the throne; but his cruelty and debauchery brought about a popular insurrection under Isaac Angelus, who put him to death after subjecting him to every spe cies of indignity torture. Andronicus II. Palæologus. Born about 1259: died 1332. Byzantine emperor 1282-1328 (1), son of Michael Palæologus. During his reign the empire was ravaged (1306-08) by the revolt of the Catalan Grand Company, a body of Spanish mercenaries employed against the Ottoman Turks, and (1321-28) by a civil war with his grandson Andronicus III., by whom he was dethroned and compelled to retire to a cloister. birthplace). A Greek astronomer, born at Cyrrhus, Syria, in the 1st century B. c., the builder of the "Tower of the Winds" (which see) at Athens. Andronicus of Rhodes. A peripatetic philosopher and commentator on Aristotle, who flourished during the 1st century B. c. He was head of the peripatetic school at Rome about 58 B. C. Andros (an'dros). [Gr. Ἄνδρος .] The northernmost island of the Cyclades, Greece, situated in the Ægean Sea 6 miles southeast of Eubœa, anciently a po e ion succe ively of Athens, Macedon, Pergamus, and Rome. Its length is 25 miles, and its greatest width 10 miles, and its surface is mountainous. Its chief product is silk.