file (subs.) Copy link Outline I. For receiving papersII. In milit. sense; a line of troops in depthIII. The tool so called1. līma2. scŏbīna • file (subs.): I. For receiving papers: perh. filum [cui inseruntur schedae (schedulae) ad conservandas eas]: or scapus, a kind of roller for papers: cf. Plin. 13, 12, 23, ad fin. II. In milit. sense; a line of troops in depth: ordo, ĭnis, m.: Caes.: Cic.: v. rank. Phr.: rank and f., milites. III. The tool so called: 1. līma: the viper bit the f., vipera l. momordit, Phaedr.: to polish anything with the f., lima aliquid polire, Plin. Fig.: f.-work, i. e. elaboration, labor limae, Hor. A. P. 291. 2. scŏbīna: used by carpenters, as the lima by smiths: Varr. L. L. 7, 3, 68, scobina fabrilis lima est: cf. Plin. 11, 37, 68.