• SALT

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• s. PROP., sal. Common salt, sal popularis (Cato): rock salt, sal fossilis: sea salt, sal marinus: refined salt, sal candidus, purus: fine salt; i. e., beaten small, sal minute tritus: to turn to salt, in salem abire (Plin.): to eat bread and salt, salem cum pane essitare (Plin.; ☞ Hor., Sat., 2, 2, 17): to sprinkle salt over anything, sale conspergere aliquid (Col.), or rei salem aspergere (Plin.): a salt spring, *fons aquae salsae; *fons unde aquae salsae profluunt: a salt pit, salis fodina (Varr.); salifodina (Vitr.); salina (Cic., Caes.): a dealer in salt, salinator (Liv.): a grain of salt, grumus or mica salis (Plin.): the salt trade, negotium salarium; salis commercium (Liv.): a salt, warehouse, *horreum salis; *horreum salibus servandis. ☞ The plur., salia, salts, used by some moderns, is not found in any ancient writer.
• Figuratively, sal: sales, plur.; e.g., Attici sales (Cic., Fam., 9, 15, 2): Attico lepore tincti sales (Mart., 3, 20, 29).

2. adj., salsus. Salt fish, piscis sale conditus or maceratus: salt meat, caro sale condita; also, salsamenta, -orum (nominative plur.; salt meat or fish, an article of trade or commerce): a salt taste, sapor salis (Plin.); sapor salsus (Lucr.).

3. v. salire: sale conspergere: salem aspergere alicui rei (to strew salt over): sale condire (to season or preserve with salt): sale macerare (to dissolve): sale indurare (to harden with salt). To salt thoroughly, sale obruere.