Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Salinum

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

SALI'NUM. A salt-cellar; both for holding the salt which was sprinkled over the altar at a sacrifice, and that which was used at meals. It usually consisted of a cup standing in a dish or a saucer; and, from being employed at the domestic sacrifice, was regarded as an object of veneration in the family; so much so, that persons even of slender means were ambitious to possess one of silver, if they could contrive to purchase it. Val. Max. iv. 4. 3. Liv. xxvi. 36. Hor. Od. ii. 16. 13.