ANDUZE, a town of France, in the department of the Gard, seated on the river Gardon. It carries on a considerable trade in serges and woollen cloth, hats, silk, and leather. Long. 3. 42. E. Lat. 43. 39. N. Pop. 4412.
ANECDOTES (ἀνέκδοτα), a term used by some authors for the titles of Secret Histories; but it more properly denotes a relation of detached and interesting particulars. The Greek word signifies things not yet published, compounded of a privative and ἐκδοσις. Procopius gives this title to a book which he published against Justinian and his wife Theodora. Anecdotes is also an appellation given to such works of the ancients as have not yet been published; in which sense Muratori gives the name Anecdota Græca to several writings of the Greek fathers, found in the libraries, and first published by him. Martene and Durand have given a Thesaurus novus Anecdotorum, in 5 vols. folio.