Androcles Classical accounts. Agostino Veneziano depicts the slave Androcles being freed by the Emperor in a work from 1516-17 now in the LACMA collection. There is also an early pen and wash drawing by Baldassare Peruzzi dating from the 1530s in the Hermitage Museum. Dependent on the account by Aulus Gellius, it depicts Androcles walking through a doorway with the lion on a lead at his heel. Other artists have preferred the scene of Androcles pulling the thorn from the lion's paw, as in Bernhard Rode's print of 1784. A later American example is Walter Inglis Anderson's block print scroll of
A Loint of Paw A Loint of Paw "A Loint of Paw" is a vignette by American writer Isaac Asimov, first published in "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction" in August 1957. It was reprinted in the 1968 collection" Asimov's Mysteries "and the 1986 collection "The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov". The title of the story is a play on the words "a point of law", which alludes to fact that the punchline of the story is a play on the words of an old saw. Asimov's author's note states that he considers "a play on words the noblest form of wit."