of the gods of the inhabitants of Sepharvaim, who were settled in the country of Samaria, in the room of those Israelites who were carried beyond the Euphrates. The Sepharvaites made their children pass through the fire, in honour of this idol and another called Anamellech. It is supposed, that Adrammelech meant the sun, and Anamellech the moon: the first signifies the magnificent king; the second the gentle king.

Adramyttium (anc. geog.), now Andramytti; a town of Myisia Major, at the foot of mount Ida, an Athenian colony, with a harbour and dock near the Caicus. Adramyttius: the epithet; as, Adramyttinus Sinus, a part of the Egean Sea, on the coast of Myisia; Adramyttinus Concurs, elections or assizes. The eighth in order of the nine Conventus Juridici of the province of Asia.

Adran, a river of Germany, (Polybius); now the Eder, rising on the borders of the county of Nassau, to the north-east of, and not far from Dillenburg, running through the landgraviate of Heiligenberg, the county of Waldeck, by Fritzlar, and then again through the landgraviate, and, together with the Fulda, falling into the Weser, to the south of, and not far from Cassel.