title: On the Archaic Meaning of the Word filum in Apuleius
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metadata.value: Dubova, Svetlana S.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-01-30T14:42:10Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-01-30T14:42:10Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Dubova S. S. On the Archaic Meaning of the Word filum in Apuleius. Philologia Classica 2017, 12(2), 136–141.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu20.2017.203
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/9019
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The paper discusses how the meaning ‘appearance, figure’ of the Latin word filum was developed in
  the pre-classical writers’ works and how the meaning in question was revived in the texts of later authors,
  especially in the writings of Apuleius. The present meaning is typical of Lucretius, as in his poem On the
  Nature of Things he regards bodies as an interweaving of atoms and describes them with terms from the
  weaving field. It was Lucretius whom Apuleius referred to speaking about the nature of daemons: fila
  corporum (De deo Soc. 11). The use of the word filum regarding human appearance could have developed
  as a metaphorical transfer from clothing to its owner. For the post-classical period writers this meaning was
  already unusual, and the word filum was often supplemented by the explicative words corporis or oris. The
  author makes an assumption that the word filum in reference to the human appearance enjoyed popularity
  in the post-classical literature due to its archaic color. A significant number of the same type expressions
  with the word filum in the given meaning (bono filo, decente filo, filo virginali etc.) are also pointing to the
  fact that these expressions were idiomatic.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 12; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: archaic vocabulary
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Apuleius
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Lucretius
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Latin idioms
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: weaving metaphors
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: On the Archaic Meaning of the Word filum in Apuleius
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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