Androclus (Andro`clus) , a Roman slave condemned to the wild beasts, but saved by a lion, sent into the arena to attack him, out of whose foot he had long before sucked a thorn that pained him, and who recognised him as his benefactor.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Andrieux, St. * Androm`ache