The corpus record — Latin

Salax

Salax · adj

Fond of leaping

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Where it lives

Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Epigrammata 4 · 0.71/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3 · 0.38/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

sălax — Lewis & Short

sălax, ācis, adj.salio; cf. sagax, from sagio.

I Fond of leaping, esp. of male animals, lustful, lecherous, salacious: galli, Varr. R. R. 3, 9, 5: aries, Ov. F. 4, 771: salaciora animalia, Lact. Opif. Dei, 14: salacissimi mares, Col. 7, 9, 1; 8, 2, 9: cauda, Hor. S. 1, 2, 45.—Vulgarly applied to Priapus: deus, Auct. Priap. 14, 1; 34, 1; and sarcastically: salacissimus Juppiter, Sen. ap. Lact. 1, 16, 10.—

II Poet. transf., that provokes lust, provocative: erucae, Ov. R. Am. 799: bulbi, Mart. 3, 75, 3: herba, i.e. eruca, Ov. A. A. 2, 422; Mart. 10, 48, 10.

In the wild

salaces Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 8.2.12
Salax Catullus, Carmina lyrics.37.1
salax Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.11.p3
salacem Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.2.45
salax Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2.422
salax Martial, Epigrammata 13.67.2

6 of 14 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.