up in front of his mausoleum at Rome, and copies were made of it for other temples of Augustus in the provinces.
Andăbătæ. See Gladiators.
Andŏcĭdēs. The second in order of time in the roll of Attic orators. He was born b.c. 439, and belonged by birth to the aristocratic party, but fell out with it in 415, when he was involved in the famous trial for mutilating the statues of Hermēs, and, to save his own and his kinsmen’s lives, betrayed his aristocratic accomplices. Having, in spite of the immunity promised him, fallen into partial atīmia (loss of civic rights), he left Athens, and carried on a profitable trade in Cyprus. After two fruitless attempts to recover his status at home, he was allowed at last, upon the fall of the Thirty and the amnesty of b.c. 403, to return to Athens, where he succeeded in repelling renewed attacks, and gaining an honourable position. Sent to Sparta in b.c. 390, during the Corinthian War, to negotiate peace, he brought back the draft of a treaty, for the ratification of which he vainly pleaded in a speech that is still extant. He is said to have been banished in consequence, and to have died in exile. Beside the abovementioned oration, we have two delivered on his own behalf, one pleading for his recall from banishment, b.c. 410; another against the charge of unlawful participation in the mysteries, b.c. 399; a fourth, Against Alcibiădēs, is spurious. His oratory is plain and artless, and its expressions those of the popular language of the day.
Andrŏgĕōs. Son of Minos, king of Crete by Pasĭphăë. Visiting Athens at the first celebration of the Panathenæa, he won victories over all the champions, when king Ægeus, out of jealousy, sent him to fight the bull of Marathon, which killed him. According to another account he was slain in an ambush. Minos avenges his son by making the Athenians send seven youths and seven maidens every nine years as victims to his Minotaur, from which Theseus at last delivers them. Funeral games were held in the Ceramīcus at Athens in honour of Androgeus under the name of Eurygy̌ēs.
Andrŏmăchē. The daughter of Eĕtiōn, king of the Cilician Thebes, is one of the noblest female characters in Homer, distinguished alike by her ill-fortune and her true and tender love for her husband, Hector. Achilles, in taking her native town, kills her father and seven brothers; her mother, redeemed from captivity, is carried off by sickness; her husband falls by the hand of Achilles; and when Troy is taken she sees her one boy, Asty̌ănax (or Scamander), hurled from the walls. She falls, as the prize of war, to Neoptŏlĕmus, the son of her greatest foe, who first carries her to Epīrus, then surrenders her to Hector's brother, Hĕlĕnus. After his death she returns to Asia with Pergămus, her son by Neoptolemus, and dies there.
Andrŏmĕda. Daughter of the Æthiopian king Cēpheus (a son of Belus) by Cassiopeia. Cassiopeia had boasted of being fairer than the Nereïds, and Poseidōn to punish the profanity, sent a flood and a sea-monster. As the oracle of Ammon promised a riddance of the plague should Andromeda be thrown to the monster, Cepheus was compelled to chain his daughter to a rock on the shore. At this moment of distress Perseus appears, and rescues her, her father having promised her to him in marriage. At the wedding a violent quarrel arises between the king's brother, Phineus, to
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