ANDROS, now ANDRO, one of that cluster of islands in the Archipelago, which were called the Cyclades, lies between Negro-Pont and Tino, and is about 15 miles from Delos. It is said to have derived its name from Andrius, one of the generals appointed by Rhadaman thus to govern the Cyclades, which had voluntarily submitted to his authority. In history, it is chiefly re markable for its early alliance with the Persians, and its determined resistance to the Athenian arms. Themis tocles, after his victory at Salamis, landed his troops on this island, resolving to levy from it large supplies for the maintenance of his fleet. He marched towards the capital, and despatched a messenger to acquaint the magistrates, that the Athenians, aided by two powerful divinities, Persuasion and Force, had come to demand a supply of provisions and money. To this the Andrians replied, that two deities equally powerful, Poverty and Impossibility, presided over their island, and that, there for., it was in vain to expect any supply from them.
Andros again withstood the assaults of the Athenians, under Alcibiades ; and seems to have continued in al liance with the Persians till it submitted, in common with the other Grecian islands, to the victorious arms of Alexander the Great. After his death, it declared in favour of Antigonus ; but that prince was dispossessed by Ptolemy, to whose 'successors it remained subject, till Attains, king of Pergamus, having taken the capital at the head of a Roman army, obtained from the Romans possession of the whole island. Upon the death of that monarch, Andros, as well as the rest of his dominions, became the property of Route.
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