Andromeda (Androm`eda) , a beautiful Ethiopian princess exposed to a sea monster, which Perseus slew, receiving as his reward the hand of the maiden; she had been demanded by Neptune as a sacrifice to appease the Nereids for an insult offered them by her mother.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Androm`ache * Androni`cus