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salsamentum

salsamentum · n

Fish-pickle

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Where it lives

Adelphi 1 · 1.01/10k
De Medicina 9 · 0.88/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Naturalis Historia 19 · 0.48/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3 · 0.38/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

salsāmentum — Lewis & Short

salsāmentum, i, n.salsus. *

I Fish-pickle, brine, * Cic. Div. 2, 57, 117.—

II Salted or pickled fish (usu. in plur.): salsamenta Fac macerentur, Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 26; Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 7; Col. 8, 17, 12; Plin. 32, 2, 9, § 18; 32, 7, 26, § 79; 32, 9, 34, § 106 al.—Sing., Col. 12, 55, 4; Gell. 2, 24, 7.

In the wild

salsamenta Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 8.17.14
salsamento Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6.13.1
salsamenta Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.9.p7
salsamentorumque Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.5.p2
salsamentum Celsus, De Medicina 2.29
salsamenta Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.30.p3

6 of 35 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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