I.a file.
I. Lit.: “limā proterere aliquid,” Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 9: “limā aliquid avellere,” Plin. 9, 35, 54, § 109: “limā aliquid polire,” id. 28, 9, 41, § 148: “topazius limam sentit,” id. 37, 8, 32, § 109: confitendum est detrahere doctrinam aliquid, ut limam rudibus, * Quint. 2, 12, 8: “vipera limam momordit,” Phaedr. 4, 8, 5.—
II. Trop., a file, as applied to literary compositions, i. e. polishing, revision (not in Cic.; cf.“, however, limatus, under limo): defuit et scriptis ultima lima meis,” Ov. Tr. 1, 7, 30: “incipiam limā mordacius uti, Et sub judicium singula verba vocem,” id. P. 1, 5, 19: “limae labor et mora,” Hor. A. P. 291: “carmina rasa limā recenti,” Mart. 10, 2, 3: “in illis limae, in hoc plus videtur fuisse sanguinis,” Vell. 2, 9, 2: “ad limam consilii desiderium petitoris distulit,” App. M. 8, p. 204 fin.
