Salpis, a colony of Etruria, whose inhabitants are called Salpinates. Livy, bk. 5, ch. 31.
Salsum, a river in Spain. Cæsar.
Salvian, one of the fathers of the fifth century, of whose works the best edition is the 12mo, Paris, 1684.
Salvidiēnus, an officer of the army of Augustus. He was betrayed by Antony, and put to death.——A Latin writer in the age of the emperor Probus.
Salvius, a flute-player, saluted king by the rebellious slaves of Sicily in the age of Marius. He maintained for some time war against the Romans.——A nephew of the emperor Otho.——A friend of Pompey.——A man put to death by Domitian.——A freedman of Atticus. Cicero, [♦]Letters to Atticus, bk. 10.——Another of the sons of Hortensius. Cicero, Letters to Atticus.
[♦] ‘ad Div. c. 11.’ replaced with ‘Letters to Atticus, bk. 10’
Salus, the goddess of health at Rome, worshipped by the Greeks under the name of Hygeia. Livy, bks. 9 & 10.
Salyes, a people of Gaul on the Rhone. Livy, bk. 5, chs. 34 & 35; bk. 21, ch. 26.
Samăra, a river of Gaul, now called the Somme, which falls into the British channel near Abbeville.
Samaria, a city and country of Palestine, famous in sacred history. The inhabitants, called Samaritans, were composed of heathens and rebellious Jews, and on having a temple built there after the form of that of Jerusalem, a lasting enmity arose between the people of Judæa and of Samaria, so that no intercourse took place between the two countries, and the name of Samaritan became a word of reproach, and as it were a curse.