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.