ANDROMACHE [An. drom’. a. ky], widow of Hector.  At the downfall of Troy both she and her son Asty’anax were allotted to Pyrrhus king of Epirus, and Pyrrhus fell in love with her, but she repelled his advances.  At length a Grecian embassy, led by Orestes son of Agamemnon, arrived, and demanded that Astyanax should be given up and put to death, lest in manhood he should attempt to avenge his father’s death.  Pyrrhus told Andromache that he would protect her son in defiance of all Greece if she would become his wife, and she reluctantly consented thereto.  While the marriage ceremonies were going on, the ambassadors rushed on Pyrrhus and slew him, but as he fell he placed the crown on the head of Andromache, who thus became the queen of Epirus, and the ambassadors hastened to their ships in flight.—­Ambrose Philips, The Distressed Mother (1712).

ANDROMEDA, beautiful daughter of the king of Ethiopia.  To appease Neptune, she was bound to a rock to be devoured by Neptune.  Perseus slew the monster and made the maiden his wife.

ANDRONI’CA, one of Logistilla’s handmaids, noted for her beauty.—­Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1516).

ANDRONI’CUS (Titus), a noble Roman general against the Goths, father of Lavin’ia.  In the play so called, published among those of Shakespeare, the word all through is called Andron’icus (1593).

Marcus Andronicus, brother of Titus, and tribune of the people.

ANDROPH’ILUS, Philanthropy personified in The Purple Island, by Phineas Fletcher (1633).  Fully described in canto x. (Greek, Andro-philos, “a lover of mankind.”)

ANDY (Handy), Irish lad in the employ of Squire Egan.  He has boundless capacity for bulls and blunders.—­Samuel Lover, Handy Andy.

ANEAL (2 syl.), daughter of Maae’ni, who loves Djabal, and believes him to be “hakeem’” (the incarnate god and founder of the Druses) returned to life for the restoration of the people and their return to Syria from exile in the Spo’rades.  When, however, she discovers his imposture, she dies in the bitterness of her disappointment.—­Robert Browning, The Return of the Druses.

L’ange de Dieu, Isabeau la belle, the “inspired prophet-child” of the Camisards.

ANGELA MESSENGER, heiress to Messenger’s Brewery and an enormous fortune.  In order to know the people of the East End she lives among them as a dressmaker.  She sees their needs, and to supply these in part, builds The People’s Palace—­or Palace of Delights.—­All Sorts and Conditions of Men, by Walter Besant (1889).

ANGEL’ICA, in Bojardo’s Orlando Innamorato (1495), is daughter of Gal’aphron king of Cathay.  She goes to Paris, and Orlando falls in love with her, forgetful of wife, sovereign, country, and glory.  Angelica, on the other hand, disregards Orlando, but passionately loves Rinaldo, who positively dislikes her.  Angelica and Rinaldo drink of certain fountains, when the opposite effects are produced in their hearts, for then Rinaldo loves Angelica, while Angelica loses all love for Rinaldo.