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Talos is probably Perdix and nephew of Daedalus invented the saw after seeing a fish’s jawbone. Daedalus was so jealous of the invention that he tried to murder him but Athena intervened and turned Talos/Peridix into a partridge to save his life. (Bibliotheca 3.15.8)According to Ovid Talos/Perdix used fish spine as the prototype of the saw. (Metamorphoses 8.244-246)According to a version of Apollodorus ([Library of Greek Mythology 3.15] transl.