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whether the annalist and orator are identical, but an Androtion
who wrote on agriculture is certainly a different person. Professor Gaetano de Sanctis (in _L'Attide di Androzione e un papiro di Oxyrhynchos_, Turin, 1908) attributes to Androtion, the atthidographer, a 4th-century historical fragment, discovered by B.P. Grenfell and A.S. Hunt (_Oxyrhynchus Papyri_, vol. v.). Strong arguments against this view are set forth by E.M. Walker in the _Classical Review_, May 1908. [v.02 p.0002] ANDÚJAR (the anc. _Slilurgi_), a town of southern Spain, in the province of Jaén; on the right bank of the river Guadalquivir and the Madrid-Cordova railway. Pop. (1900) 16,302. Andújar is widely known for its porous earthenware jars, called _alcarrazas_, which keep water cool in the hottest weather, and are manufactured from a whitish clay found in the neighbourhood. ANECDOTE (from [Greek: an]-, privative, and [Greek: ekdidomi], to give out or publish), a word originally meaning something not published. It has now two distinct significations. The primary one is something not published, in which sense it has been used to denote either secret histories--Procopius, _e.g._, gives this as one of the titles of his secret history of Justinian's court--or portions of ancient writers which have remained long in manuscript and are edited for the first time. Of such _anecdota_ there are many collections; the earliest was |
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