Meaning Of The Word Androcles

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Androcles in American English
a slave who escapes death when thrown into the arena with a lion because the lion recognizes him as the man who once extracted a thorn from its foot
noun: a slave who was spared in the arena by a lion from whose foot he had long before extracted a thorn

Androcles in British English
noun: (in Roman legend) a slave whose life was spared in the arena by a lion from whose paw he had once extracted a thorn

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