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Perdix |
 | | Perdix was the nephew of the famous inventor Daedalus. |
| | According to some versions, Perdix invented the saw after seeing the ridges on the backbone of a fish; others say that the boy used a snake's jaw. |
| | Perdix is the Greek word for partridge, and it is said that this bird, which barely flies and builds its nest on the ground, does so because it remembers too well the terrible fall from the Acropolis. |
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