LIMA
LIMA (
ῥίνη), a file, was made of
iron or steel, for the purpose of polishing metal or stone, and appears to
have been of the same form as the instruments used for similar purposes in
modern times. (
Plin. Nat. 9.109, 28.148,
37.109; Plaut.
Menaechm. 1.1, 9;
Xen. Gyrop. 6.2, 33.)
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