sălūtāris — Lewis & Short
sălūtāris, e, adj.salus,
I of or belonging to well-being, healthful, wholesome, salutary, serviceable, beneficial, advantageous (in the most general sense, while the predominant meaning of salubris, in class. lang., is healthy in a medical sense; very freq. and class.).
I In gen.
(a) Absol.:
ut quae mala perniciosaque sunt, habeantur pro bonis ac salutaribus,Cic. Leg. 1, 16, 44:
pro salutaribus mortifera conscribere,id. ib. 2, 5, 13:
res salutares (opp. pestiferae),id. N. D. 2, 12, 34:
res utiles et salutares,id. ib. 1, 15, 38:
salutaris et vitalis calor,id. ib. 2, 10, 27:
sine quo nihil nec laudabile nec salutare est,Quint. 12, 10, 79:
tuta et salutaria capessere (opp. praecipitia),Tac. A. 15, 29:
salutares litterae,Cic. Att. 9, 7, 2; cf.:
Apollonides orationem salutarem habuit,Liv. 24, 28:
portus eloquentiae,Quint. 12, 7, 4; cf. Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 17:
salutaris ars,of healing, Hor. C. S. 63:
herbae,Ov. R. Am. 45:
amurca,Col. 6, 4, 4.—
Rarely of persons: civis,Cic. Mil. 8, 20: bonus et salutaris Princeps, Tiber. ap. Suet. Tib. 29.—
(b) With dat., ad, contra aliquid, etc. (the first very freq. in Cic.):
ratio quoniam pestifera sit multis, admodum paucis salutaris,Cic. N. D. 3, 27, 69; Plaut. Aul. 2, 1, 26:
hominum generi universo cultura agrorum est salutaris,Cic. Sen. 16, 56; id. Fam. 6, 6, 4; id. Brut. 4, 15:
corporibus tot res, animis nulla,id. Tusc. 4, 27, 58:
vox petentibus,Quint. 10, 7, 2; cf.:
radicem decoctam bibere, spasticis, etc. ... salutare ost,Plin. 21, 19, 77, § 132.—Once also in the comp.:
nihil est nobis salutarius,Cic. N. D. 3, 9, 23:
stella Jovis aut Veneris conjuncta cum Lunā ad ortus puerorum salutaris sit,id. Div. 1, 39, 85:
decoctum ad dentium dolorem,Plin. 24, 9, 42, § 71:
herba Britannica non nervis modo salutaris sed contra anginas quoque et contra serpentes,id. 25, 3, 6, § 20:
dicunt radicem et in pestilentiā salutarem esse in cibis,id. 24, 16, 92, § 148. —
(g) As subst.: sălūtāre, is, n., salvation, deliverance, health (late Lat.), Vulg. Gen. 49, 18; id. Psa. 41, 5 et saep.—Plur.: bibere salutaria alicui, to drink one's health, App. M. 2, p. 128, 25.—
II In partic.
A As an appellative: salutaris littera, i. e. the letter A, written on the voting tablets as an abbreviation for absolvo, Cic. Mil. 6, 15 (opp. littera tristis, i. e. C, for condemno): digitus, i. e. the index-finger (perh. as used in greeting), Suet. Aug. 80; Mart. Cap. 1, § 90.—
2 Subst.: sălūtāre, is, n., i. q. salus, welfare, prosperity, Vulg. Psa. 115, 13 (4) (for the Heb. ).—Adj. prop.: Collis Salutaris, one of the four summits of the Quirinal (so called from the temple of Salus, which stood on it), Varr. L. L. 5, § 52 Müll.; cf. Salus, II.;
and v. Becker, Antiq. 1, pp. 568 and 578 sq.: Salutaris porta appellata est ab aede Salutis, quae ei proxima fuit,Fest. p. 326 Müll.: Jovem cum Optimum et Maximum dicimus, cumque eundem Salutarem Hospitalem. Statorem: hoc intellegi volumus, salutem hominum in ejus esse tutelā (corresp. to the Gr. *zeu\s *swth/r), Cic. Fin. 3, 20, 66:
qui (Jesus) Latine dicitur salutaris sive salvator,Lact. 4, 12, 6.—Hence, adv.: sălūtārĭter, profitably, beneficially, salutarily:
uti armis,Cic. Brut. 2, 8: se recipere, Plancus ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23, 2:
cogitare aliquid,id. ib. 10, 24, 2:
quinque consulatus salutariter rei publicae administrati,Val. Max. 5, 2, 3:
haec salutariter scripsi,Amm. 20, 8, 17.— Comp. and sup. of the adv., and sup. of the adj. do not occur.