=Andromăchus=, an opulent person of Sicily, father to the historian Timæus. _Diodorus_, bk. 16. He assisted Timoleon in recovering the liberty of the Syracusans.――――A general of Alexander, to whom Parmenio gave the government of Syria. He was burnt alive by the Samaritans. _Curtius_, bk. 4, chs. 5 & 8.――――An officer of Seleucus the younger. _Polyænus_, bk. 4.――――A poet of Byzantium.――――A physician of Crete, in the age of Nero.――――A sophist of Naples, in the age of Diocletian. =Andromădus=, or =Androdamus=, a native of Rhegium, who made laws for the Thracians concerning the punishment of homicide, &c. _Aristotle._ =Andrŏmĕda=, a daughter of Cepheus king of Æthiopia by Cassiope. She was promised in marriage to Phineus her uncle, when Neptune drowned the kingdom, and sent a sea monster to ravage the country, because Cassiope had boasted herself fairer than Juno and the Nereides. The oracle of Jupiter Ammon was consulted, and nothing could stop the resentment of Neptune, if Andromeda was not exposed to the sea monster. She was accordingly tied naked on a rock, and at the moment that the monster was going to devour her, Perseus, who returned through the air from the conquest of the Gorgons, saw her, and was captivated with her beauty. He promised to deliver her and destroy the monster, if he received her in marriage as a reward for his trouble. Cepheus consented, and Perseus changed the sea monster into a rock, by showing him Medusa’s head, and untied Andromeda and married her. He had by her many children, among whom were Sthenelus, Ancæus, and Electryon. The marriage of Andromeda with Perseus was opposed by Phineus, who, after a bloody battle, was changed into a stone by Perseus. Some say that Minerva made Andromeda a constellation in heaven after her death. _See:_ Medusa, Perseus. _Hyginus_, fable 64.――_Cicero_, _de Natura Deorum_, bk. 2, ch. 43. ――_Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 4.――_Marcus Manilius_, bk. 5, li. 533. ――_Propertius_, bk. 3, poem 21.――――According to _Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 31, it was at Joppa in Judæa that Andromeda was tied on a rock. He mentions that the skeleton of the huge sea monster, to which she had been exposed, was brought to Rome by Scaurus, and carefully preserved. The fable of Andromeda and the sea monster has been explained, by supposing that she was courted by the captain of a ship, who attempted to carry her away, but was prevented by the interposition of another more faithful lover.