1) Legendary lion tamer 2) Legendary thorn remover 3) Lion tamer of legend
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Androcles (Ἀνδροκλῆς) or Androclus, is the name given by some sources to the main character of a common folktale that is included in the Aarne–Thompson classification system as type 156. The story reappeared in the Middle Ages as `The Shepherd and the Lion` and was then ascribed to Aesop. It is numbered 563 in the Perry Index and ca.....
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(from the article `Alcibiades`) ...In the ensuing panic Alcibiades was accused of being the originator of the sacrilege as well as of having profaned the Eleusinian Mysteries. He ...
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Roman slave who allegedly lived about the time of the emperor Tiberius or Caligula and who became the hero of a story told by Aulus Gellius. The ...
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Traditionally, a Roman slave who fled from a cruel master into the African desert, where he encountered a crippled lion and withdrew a thorn from its paw. The lion later recognized the recaptured...
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In Roman mythology, Androcles was a Roman slave who fled from a cruel master into the African desert, where he encountered a crippled lion and took a thorn from its paw. The lion later recognized the recaptured slave in the arena and spared his life. The emperor Tiberius was said to have freed them both.
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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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