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salinum: almost proverbial. Cf. Pers. 3.25, purum et sine labe salinum; Valer. Max. 4.4.3; Sen. de Tranq. An. l. The family salt-cellar brightly polished is the one piece of silver on the board of the man who knows, 'What and how great the virtue and the art| To live on little with a cheerful heart' (Pope). splendet: cf. Epist. 1.5.23. tenui: frugal; cf. Epist. 1.20.20; Herrick 337.7, 'If we can meet, and so conferre,| Both by a shining salt-seller.'


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