Crossword-Solution: SALARIUM
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SALARIUM (5)
Adiecit aedes magnificas, in quibus agerent 385 duo ludi magistri, quibus amplum salarium designavit, quo gratuito docerent, sed sic uti schola non capiat nisi certum numerum.
Our word "salary" comes from the Latin word _sal_, meaning salt; and _salarium_, or "salt-money," was money given for paying one's expenses on a journey.
Part of the pay of the Roman soldiers was made in salt, which was thus called _salarium_, whence we derive the word "salary." THE MARINER'S PUZZLE.
When the wages are paid monthly, or at longer intervals, they are generally called #salary# (Latin, _salarium_, money given to Roman soldiers for salt); but if the salary is paid for labour and nothing else, it is exactly the same in nature as wages.
When a man was not a slave nor exactly a servant, but a member of the household who did something for which he was paid, he was paid in salt, because he could be invited to eat salt with his master, and this pay was called _salarium_,—salary.