[an-druh-kleez] 
| a slave who was spared in the arena by a lion from whose foot he had long before extracted a thorn. |
[an-druh-kluh
s] .| An·dro·cles (ān'drə-klēz') 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. |