Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Philyra

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

PHIL'YRA or PHIL'URA (φιλύρα). A thin strip cut from the inner coat of the papyrus, in order to make a sheet of writing paper. This was effected by glueing together a number of these strips, sufficient for the size of the sheet required, and then consolidating it by a number of similar layers fastened cross-ways at the back, which gave the requisite texture to the whole, and prevented the sheet from splitting in the direction of the fibres. Plin. H. N. xiii. 23.