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 136 ANDROS. (NepoB, Themitt. 10), was continaed by Cambjses and his snocessora. [W. B. D.] ANDROS CAyJpos: Eth/Apnptos.Andnns: An- dro), the most northerly and one of the largest islands of the Cyclades, S£. of Euboea, 21 miles long and 8 broad. According to tradition it derived its name either from Andreas, a general of Rhadamanthus or from the seer Andnis. (Diod. t. 79; Pans. x. 13. § 4; Conon, 44; Steph. B. », v.) It was colonized by lonians, and early attained so much importance as to send colonies to Acanthus and Stageira in Chalcidioe abont b. c. 654. (Thuc. iv. 84, 88.) The Andiians were compelled to join the fleet of Xeixes in his invasion of Greece, b. c. 480; in consequence of which Themistocles attempted to levy a large sum of money from the people, and upon their re* fusing to pay it, laid siege to their city, but was unable to take the place. (HenxL viii. Ill, 121.) The island however afterwards became subject to the Athenians, and at a later time to the Ifacedonians. It was taken by the Romans in their war Tvith Philip, B. c. 200, and given to their ally Attains. (Liv. xxxi. 45.) The chief city also called Andros, was situated nearly in the middle of the western coast of the island, at the foot of a lofty mountam. Its citadel strongly fortified by nature is mentioned by Livy {L c). It had no harbour of its own, but it used one in tlie neighbourhood, called Gaurion (Vaopiop) by Xenophon (^IleU. i. 4. § 22), and Gaureleon by Livy (/. c), and which still bears the ancient name of Gavrion. The ruins of the ancient city are de- scribed at length by Ross, who discovered here, among other inscriptions, an interesting hymn to Isis in hexameter verse, of which the reader will find a copy in the CUuncal Museum (vol. i. p. 34, seq.). The present population of Andios is 15,000 souls. Its sml is fertile, and its chief productions are silk and wine. It was also celebrated for its wine in antiquity, and the whole island was awarded as sacred to Dionysus. There was a tradition that, during the festival of this god, a fountain flowed with wine. (Plin. ii. 103, xxxi. 13; Fans. vi. 26, § 2.) (Thevenot, Travels^ Part i. p. 15, seq.; Toumefort, Voyage^ vol. i. p. 265, seq.; Fiedler, iZeue, voL ii. p. 221, seq.; and especially Ross, i20uen au/d, Griech. Itueln^ vol. ii. p. 12, seq.) COIN OF ANDKOS. ANDROS. [Edros.] ANDU'SIA, a town known only from an inscrip- tion found at Nimes, or at Anduse (Walckenaer, Geog. ^.). The name still exists in the small town of Anduse on the Gordon, called the Gordon d" Anduse, which flows into the Rhone on the right bank, between Avignon and Aries. (D'Anville, Notice, &c.) [G. L.] ANEMOREIA, subsequently ANEMOLEIA ('Avc/ic^pcM, *AytfJL^fM: JEth. 'Avc/to»pevs), a town of Phocis mentioned by Homer, was situated on a height on the borders of Phocis and Delphi, and is said to have derived its name from the gusts of wind which blew on tiie place from the tops of Mt. Par- ANGRIVARH. nassus. (Horn. IL ii. 521; Strab. p. 423; Steph. B. s. V.) ANEMO'SA CAvffi&ffa), a village of Arcadia in the district l^Iaenalia on the Helisson near ZibmtL (Paus. viii. 35. § 9; Leake, Pehponnesiaca, p. 238.) ANEMUmUM (Aytfw6piov: Cape Anamur), the most southern point of Asia AGnor, which '* to-- minates in a high bluff knob." Strabo (p. 669) places Anemurium at the nearest point of Gilicia to Cyprus. He adds that " the distance along the coast to Anemurium from the borders of Pamphylia (that is, from Goracesium) is 820 stadia, and the nsraain- der of the coast distance to Soli is about 500 stadia." Beaufort (^Karamania, p. 201) suspects that the numbera in Strabo have been aocid0itally misplaced in the MSS., " for fix>m Anemurium to Soli is nearlj double the distance of the former place from Cora- cesium." But the matter would not be set qoite right merely by making the numbers change places, as the true distances will show. Strabo does not mention a city Anemurinm, but it is mentioned by Pliny (v. 27), by Ptolemy, and Scylax. Beaufort found thero the indications of a considerable ancient town. The modem castle, which is on one side of the high bluff knob, is supplied with water by two aqueducts, which are channels cut in the rocks of the hills, but where they croai ravines they are supported by arches. Within the space enclosed by the fortified walls of the castle there are the remains of two theatines. All the co- lumns and the seats of the theatre have been carried away, probably to Cyprus. There is also a lai;ge necropolis full of tombs, the walls of which are still sound, though the tombs have been ransacked. It does not appear to what period these remains bekm^, but the theatres and aqueduct are probaUy of the Roman period. There are many medals of Ane- murium of the time of the Roman emperors. [GX.] ANGE'A, a place in Thessaly in the district Thessaliotis, of uncertain site. (Liv. xxzii. 13.) A'NGELE. [ArncA.] ANGITES CAyyirris: A'nghistd), a river of Macedonia, flowing into the lake Cercinitis, about 6 or 8 miles to the N of Amphipolis. (Herod. viL 113; Leake, Northern Greece, voL iii. p. 183.) ANGI'TIAE LUCUS. [Fdcinus.] ANGLII or ANGLI C'ATyetAoi, ''A'>7iXot), were according to Tacitus (^Germ. 40), and Ptolemy (ii. 1 1 ), a tribe of the Gennan inoe of the SuevL Tacitos does not mention the country they oocufaed: but, ac- cording to Ptolemy, they were the greatest tribe in the interior of Germany, extending fdrther east than the Langobardi, and to the north as far as the river Albis. Subsequently, in connection with other tribes, they immigrated under the name of Anglo-Saxons into England. A district in Schleswig still bears the name of Angeln, but it is doubtful whether that name has any connection with the ancient Anglii. (Ledebur, in the AUgem. Archiv. Jur die GescL des PreusB. Stoats, xiii. p. 75, foil.) [L. S.] ANGRIVA'RII (Ayy ptovdptoi), a German tribe dwelling on both sides of the river Visui^ ( Weser), but mainly in the territory between that river and the Albis {Elbe); they were separated in the south from the Cherusci by a mound of earth. (Tacit. Ann. ii. 19 ; Ptol. il 1 1. § 16.) Their name is commonly connected with the word Anger, that is, a meadow. The Angrivarii were at first on good terms ^ith tiie Romans, but this relation was interrupted, though only for a short time, by an insurrection in a. d. 16,