Androcles there a story told by Apion in his lost work "Aegyptiacorum" (Wonders of Egypt), the events of which Apion claimed to have personally witnessed in Rome. In this version, Androclus (going by the Latin variation of the name), is a runaway slave of a former Roman consul administering a part of Africa. He takes shelter in a cave, which turns out to be the den of a wounded lion, from whose paw he removes a large thorn. In gratitude, the lion becomes tame towards him and henceforward shares his catch with the slave. After three years, Androclus craves a return
The Wounded Lion had promised the princess that she had found her a bridegroom. They went back to the princess, and her parents, the king and queen, knew him for their own son. So he married the girl who had saved him. The lion with a thorn in its paw and who, after being freed from his pain, becomes friend with the character who saved him is similar to "The Lion and the Mouse". The Wounded Lion The Wounded Lion is a Spanish fairy tale collected by D. Francisco de S. Maspons y Labros, in "Cuentos Populars Catalans". Andrew Lang included it in