Androcles

American

[an-druh-kleez] / ˈæn drəˌkliz /

Also Androclus

noun

Roman Legend.

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

Androcles British

/ ˈændrəˌkliːz, ˈændrəkləs /

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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Born in Kuala Lumpur, Gough started his career in the 1946 television movie Androcles and the Lion.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2011

One suggested that the beast cut its paw on a Coca-Cola bottle, another thought the lion was a character actor from a traveling troupe of Shaw's Androcles and the Lion.

From Time Magazine Archive

In more recent years Dooley has worked in the Federal Theater Project with John Houseman and Orson Welles, played in The Show-Off, Androcles and the Lion and the Broadway production of Cabin in the Sky.

From Time Magazine Archive

The season starts with Comedy of Errors, July 28-30, continues with Cymbeline, Aug. 4-6, and ends with George Bernard Shaw's Androcles and the Lion, Aug. 11-13.

From Time Magazine Archive

The lion came nearer and nearer—and then Androcles noticed that the lion walked in a peculiar manner.

From The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two by Ghosh, Sarath Kumar

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