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sălārĭus , a, um sal.
I. Adj., of or belonging to salt, salt-: “annona,the yearly revenue from the sale of salt, Liv. 29, 37.—
B. Adj. prop.: Salaria Via, the road beginning at the Porta Collina, and leading into the country of the Sabines, so called because the Sabines fetched salt by it from the sea, the Salt Road, Plin. 31, 7, 41, § 89; Fest. s. h. v. p. 326 Müll.; Varr. R. R. 1, 14, 3; 3, 1, 6; 3, 2, 14; Liv. 7, 9; Suet. Ner. 48; id. Vesp. 12; “called Salaria (sc. via),Cic. N. D. 3, 5, 11; Mart. 4, 64, 18.—
II. Substt.
A. sălārĭus , ii, m., a dealer in salted fish (post-Aug.), Mart. 1, 42, 8; 4, 86, 9: “CORPVS SALARIORVM,Inscr. Orell. 1092.—
B. sălārĭum , ii, n. (sc. argentum; cf.: calcearium, congiarium, vestiarium, etc.); orig., the money given to the soldiers for salt, salt-money; hence, post-Aug. (v. Dio Cass. 52, 23, and 78, 22), in gen., a pension, stipend, allowance, salary (cf.: honorarium, annuum, merces, stipendium): (sal) honoribus etiam militiaeque interponitur, salariis inde dictis, magnă apud antiquos auctoritate, Plin. 31, 7, 41, § 89: non pudet tribunorum militarium salariis emere (candelabra), i.e. for as much as the salarium of a military tribune amounts to, id. 34, 3, 6, § 11; cf. Juv. 3, 132: “salarii loco,Sen. Ep. 97, 2: “comites salario sustentare,Suet. Tib. 46: “senatorum nobilissimo cuique ... annua salaria constituit,id. Ner. 10; cf.: “salarium proconsulari solitum offerri Agricolae non dedit,Tac. Agr. 42; Plin. Ep. 4, 12, 2; Dig. 34, 1, 16: “salarium annuum,ib. 2, 15, 8, § 23; hence, a meal: “jam salarium dandum est,Mart. 3, 7, 6.
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    • Suetonius, Tiberius, 46
    • Tacitus, Agricola, 42
    • Suetonius, Nero, 10
    • Suetonius, Nero, 48
    • Suetonius, Divus Vespasianus, 12
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 34.11
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 4.12.2
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 7, 9
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 29, 37
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 3.5
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 97.2
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