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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Saw

In Christian art an attribute of St. Simon and St. James the Less, in allusion to the tradition of their being sawn to death in martyrdom.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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