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Famous for its swords. “The temper of Toleʹdan blades is such that they are sometimes packed in boxes, curled up like the mainsprings of watches”!! Both Livy and Polybʹius refer to them.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.