Androcles

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An·dro·cles

A0292200 (ăn′drə-klēz′) also An·dro·clus (-kləs)n. A legendary Roman slave held to have been spared in the arena by a lion that remembered him as the man who had once removed a thorn from its paw.

Androcles

(ˈændrəˌkliːz) or

Androclus

n (Classical Myth & Legend) (in Roman legend) a slave whose life was spared in the arena by a lion from whose paw he had once extracted a thorn

An•dro•cles

(ˈæn drəˌkliz)

n. a Roman slave, in a fable of the 1st–2nd centuries a.d., who was spared in the arena by a lion from whose foot he had once extracted a thorn.