A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Emma Southon

Author:Emma Southon [Southon, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786078384
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Published: 2020-07-20T00:00:00+00:00

† The story is that an enslaved man called Androclus in the province of Africa ran away from his owner, the proconsul of Africa during the reign of Gaius, because of the ‘undeserved and daily’ floggings he received. After three years he was caught and condemned. He was put into a show with a lion that was supposed to eat him, but instead the lion licked the man’s hands and nuzzled him and Androclus hugged the lion. Gaius called Androclus to him and demanded an explanation. Androclus explained that he had spent his three years of freedom hiding in a cave in the African desert and that during that time he had met this lion who was limping and bleeding from a huge thorn stuck in his foot. Androclus removed the thorn and he and the lion had lived together, sharing food and the cave, for three years until both were captured. Both Androclus and the lion were freed and spent the rest of their time living together in Rome, being showered with love and presents. Aulus Gellius claims that an eyewitness named Apion wrote this down; Attic Nights 5.14.

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