in ancient writers, denotes a street, or public place, where people met and conversed together. In some writers, androna is more expressly used for the space between two houses; in which sense, the Greeks also use the term androna, for the way or passage between two apartments.

ANDRONA is also used, in ecclesiastical writers, for that part in churches destined for the men. Anciently it was the custom for the men and women to have separate apartments in places of worship, where they performed their devotions separately; which method is still religiously observed in the Greek church. The androna, or androna, was in the southern side of the church, and the women's apartment on the northern.

ANDRONICUS L emperor of the East, caused Alexius II. who had been put under his care, to be strangled; and then took possession of the throne of Constantinople, in 1183; but the people, becoming exasperated at his cruelties, proclaimed Isaac Angelus emperor, and put Andronicus in irons: they then thrust out his eyes; and, having led him through the city in an ignominious manner, hanged him.

Andronicus of Cyrrhus, built, at Athens, an octagon.