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by resolutebat
1054 days ago
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It's well documented that the word salarius is derived from salt, it's just very unclear why. Paying out salaries in cash (well, coins) so soldiers can buy trade goods like salt certainly makes more sense than handing them sacks of NaCl. |
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It’s not unlikely that the connection between these were was already merely etymological by that time and made barely any more sense to the Romans as it does to us.