Androcles

American  

[an-druh-kleez] / ˈæn drəˌkliz /

Also Androclus

noun

Roman Legend.

1. a slave who was spared in the arena by a lion from whose foot he had long before extracted a thorn.

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Androcles British  

/ ˈændrəˌkliːz, ˈændrəkləs /

noun

1. (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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Example Sentences

As a theater major at Alfred University in central New York, he became part of an ambitious department that was staging Bertolt Brecht and other European writers and experimenting with unusual settings — he was in a production of “Androcles and the Lion” that was staged in a gymnasium transformed to look like a Roman arena.

From New York Times

“And she clicked with Bernard Shaw right away, as I learned from ‘Androcles.’”

From New York Times

She returned in 2017 as one of the festival’s intern directors, where she assisted Mr. Carroll on Shaw’s audience-friendly “Androcles and the Lion.”

From New York Times

She still has a copy of a program from her junior high production of “Androcles and the Lion.”

From Washington Post

Along with Losey’s lively watercolor sketches for productions of Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew,” George Bernard Shaw’s “Androcles and the Lion” and a version of Aristophanes’ “Lysistrata” set in “the mythical state of Ebonia,” the show is packed with photographs and newspaper clips from the time, profiling such local African-American stars as Sara Oliver and Joe Staton.

From Seattle Times