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
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."