noun
sălīnae
Meaning
- salt-works
sălīnae, ārum sal (cf. Varr. L. L. 8, § 48 Müll.), f. (sc. fodinae),
I. salt-works, saltpits, Plin. 31, 7, 39, § 81; Cic. N. D. 2, 53, 132; Caes. B. C. 2, 37; Liv. 1, 33; Col. 2, 2, 15 sq. al.:
Salinae Romanae, the salt-works established by Ancus Martius at Ostia, near Rome, Liv. 7, 19 fin.; cf. id. 1, 33; also called simply Salinae, id. 5, 45; 24, 47: Herculeae, near Herculaneum, Col. poët. 10, 135.—In a play upon the meaning of this word and that of sal, II.: quod parum diligenter possessio salinarum mearum a te procuratore defenditur, Cic. Fam. 7, 32, 1. —B. Sălīnae, nom. prop.
1. The saltworks at Ostia, v. supra.—
2. A square in Rome, near the Porta Trigemina, Front. Aquaed. 5 fin.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
salīnae ārum, f
sal; sc. fodinae, salt-works, salt-pits : vis (salis) ex salinis congesta, Cs., L.: Romanae, the salt-works at Ostia , L.—Fig.: possessio salinarum mearum, i. e. of my jest-factory .