salt (subs.) Copy link Outline I. Lit.II. Fig. of elegance and wit, săles, ium • salt (subs.): I. Lit.: sal, sălis, m.: fine, white s., s. candidus, Cato, R. R. 88: common s., s. popularis, ib.: to lay anything in s., aliquid in sale ponere, ib.: to keep it there, in s. habere, ib.: rock or sea s., s. fossilis, marinus, Varr. R. R. 2, 11, med.; called respectively, s. maritimus, fossicius, ib. 1, 7, ad fin.: a grain of s., salis mica, Plin. II. Fig. of elegance and wit, săles, ium: Cic. Fam. 9, 15 (s. Attici): v. wit.