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 SALETIO. I Silanis is not less than 1 8 miles, thongh erroneously I given in the Tibula at only 9. (Tab.Peut.) [E. H. B.] I SALE'TIO, in Gallia. This name occui's in the Not. Imp., in the Antonine Itin. and in the Table. Ammianus (xvi. 2) names it Saliso : " Argento- ratum, Brocomagum, Tabernas, Salisonem, &c." The Itin. places Saletio between Argentoratum (Strussburff) and Tabernae; and the Table places it between Tabernae and Brocomagus {Brwnuth), which is north of Strassburg. The numbers are not correct in the Itin.; but there is no doubt that the place is Setz near the Rhine. A diploma of Otho the Great names it " Salise in Elisazium," in Ehitz OT Alsace. (D'Anville, A o^ice, cfc) [G. L.] SALGANEUS (SaAyavevs ; Liv. uses the Gr. ace. Salganea: Etk. ^aXydvtos), a town upon the eastern coast of Boeotia, and between Chaicis and Anthedon, is said to have derived its name from a Boeotian, who served as pilot to the Persian fleet of Xerxes, and was put to death upon suspicion of treachery, because no outlet appeared to the channel of the Euripus; but the Persian commander, having found out his mistake, erected a monument on the spot, where the town was afterwards built. (Strab. ix. p. 403; Dicaeareli. Stat. Grace, p. 19; Steph. B. 8. v.). Salganeus was considered an important place from its commanding the northern entrance to the Euripus. (Diod. xix. 77; Liv. xxxv. .37, 46, .51.) The remains of the town stand directly under the highest summit of ilount Slessapium, in the angle where the plain terminates, and upon the side of a small port. The citadel occupied a height rising from the shore, 90 yards in length, and about 50 broad, and having a flat summit sloping from the SE. towards the sea. There are remains of walls on the crest of the summit, and on the SE. side of the height. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 267.) SALI (SaAoi, Ptol. iii. 5. § 22), a people of European Sarmatia, whom Schalkrik {Slav. Alt. vol. i. p. 302) places on the river Salis in the Baltic province of Livonia. [E. B. J.] SA'LIA, a river in the territory of the Astures, on the N. coast of Hispania Tarraconensis. (Mela, iii. 1.) Now the Sella. [T. H. D.] SATJA, a branch of the Mosella {Monel), men- tioned by Venant. Fortun. (iii. 12. 5), which must be the Seille (Forbiger, vol. iii. p. 126). The Seille ioins the Mosel at Metz. [G. L.] SALICA (SaAiKo, Ptol. ii. 6. § 59), a town of the Oretani in Hispania Tarraconensis. [T. H. D.] SALICE. [Taphobane.] SALIC ES (AD), a place in Moesia which the Antonine Itinerary places not far from the mouths of the Danube at 43 AL P. from Halmyris, and 62 M. P. from Tomi. The low and marshy meadows which surrounded it were the scene of the sanguinary battle between the great Fridigern and the legions of Valens. (Amm. Marc. xxxi. 7. § 5; Gibbon, c. xxvi.; Le Beau, Bas Empire, iv. p. 112 ; Green- wood, Hist, of the Germans, p. 328.) [E. B. J.] SALIENTIS (Salieiitibus, Itin. Ant. -p. 428), a. ybice in Gallaecia, on the road froin Bracara to As- rica ; variously identified with Caldelas and ' 'rense. [T. H. D.] SALIXAE, in Gallia, the chief town of the Suetri or Suctrii (Ptol. iii. 1. § 42), a people in the Pro- 'incia E. of the Rhone. An inscription in Spon, '■ Decc. civitatis .Salin.," is said to belong to this place ; and another inscription has been fouiul at Lncerano near the sources of the Par/lione : " C. Julio Valenti SALMONA 8S3 J. F. Fabr vi. viro civitat. S.aliniens. . . . Alpium maritimarum patrono optimo." Some place Salinas at Castellan in the diocese of Senez in the Maritime Alps, where there are salt springs, and where Spoil's inscription is said to have been found. D'Auville places it at Seitlans in the diocese of Frejus, near Faventia {Fayence); and he observes that all the old towns of this country preserve their names. (D'An- ville. Notice, cjc; u'kert, Gallien, p. 438.) [G. L.] SALI'NAE (SaAr^ai, Ptol. ii. 3. § 21), a town of the Catyeuchlani or Capelani, towards the E. coast of Britannia Romana. Camden (p. 3.T9) identifies it with Salndy or Sandye, near Potion in Bedfordshire ; others liave sought it in the S. part of Lincolnshire. [T. H. D.] SALI'NAE (SoATmi, Ptol. iii. 8. § 7 ; I'eut. Tab.; Geog. Rav. iv. 7), a town of Dacia identified with Thorda.on Khe Aranyos'in Transylvania, v! ra there are Roman remains. (Comp. Paget, Hungary and Transylvania, vol. ii. p. 259.) [E. B. J.] SALINSAE. [Mauretania, Vol. II. p. 299, a.] SALI'NUM (SaATrai/), a place on the right bank of the Danube, a little below Aquincum,on the road from this town to ilursa in Lower Panuonia. (Ptol. ii. 16. § 4; It. Ant. p. 245, where it is called Vetus Salina.) On the Pent. Table we find in that spot the corrupt name Yetusalium. Its site must have been in the neighbourhood of the modern Han.iza- bek. [L. S.] SALIOCANUS. [Staliocanus.] SALIOCLITA, in Gallia, is placed by the An- tonine Itin. on the road from Genabum {Orleans) to Lutetia (Pam). It is Saclas, a little south of Elampes, on the Juine, a branch of the Seijie. The Itin. makes the distance the same from Genabum, and Lutetia, which we must take to be La Cite de Paris ; but there is an error in the Itin., as D'Anville shows, in the distance from Salioclita to Lutetia, and he proposes to correct it. [G. L.] SALISSO, in north Gallia, is placed by the An- tonine Itin. on a road from Augusta Trevirorum {Trier) to Bingium {Bingen). The places reck- oned from Augusta are Baudobrica xviii., Salisso xxii, Bingium xxiii. This Baudobrica is not the place described under the article Baudobrica {Boppart). These 63 Gallic leagues exceed the real distance from Trier to Bingen considerably. The site of Salisso is uncertain. [G. L.] SALLAECUS {MWaiKos, Ptol. ii. 5. § 8), a town in the S. of Lusitania. [T. H. D.] SALLENTrNI. TSalentini.] SALLUNTUM. [Dalmatia.] SAJwMA'NTICA {laXfjiivriKa, Ptol. ii. 5. § 9; in the Itin. Ant. called Salmatice; in Polyaenus Strat. viii. 48, 2aA^aTis), an important town of the Vettones in Lusitania, on the S. bank of w Durius, on the road from Emerita to Caesaraugusia. It is incontestibly identical with the 'ILXfiavTiKi) of Polybius (iii. 14), and the Ilerm.indica or ilelmaii- tica of Livy (xxi. 5; cf. Nonius, Ilisp. c. 38). It is the celel)rated modern town of Salamanca, where the piers of a bridsre of twenty-seven arches over the Tttrmes, built liy Trajan, are still in existence. (Cf. Minano, Diccion. vii. p. 402; Florez, Esp. Sagr. xiv. p. 267.) [T. H. 1).] SALMO'N., a branch of the Moscila {.Vosil). " N("C fastiditos Salmonae usurpo fluoies." (Ausonius, Mosell. 366.) The Salmona is the Salme, which flows into the Mosel, near the village of Neumagen. [G. L.] 3 L 2