Salacia

• The goddess of the sea, wife of Neptune, Varr. L. L. 5, § 72 Müll.; id. ap. Aug. Civ. Dei, 7, 22; an old form of prayer in Gell. 13, 22, 22; Cic. Univ. 11; Fest. pp. 326 and 327 Müll.; Serv. ad Verg. A. 10, 76; Verg. G. 1, 31; Ap. Met. 4, 31, 20 al.—*
• II An appellation for the sea: saevitiam Salaciae fugimus, Pac. ap. Fest. 1. 1. (Trag. Rel. p. 112 Rib.).

the female divinity of the sea among the Romans, and the wife of Neptune. (Varro, De Ling. Lat. 5.72; apud August. De Civ. Dei, 7.22; Serv. ad Aen. 1.144, 10.76.) The name is evidently connected with sal (ἅλς), and accordingly denotes the wide, open sea. Servius (Serv. ad Aen. 1.720) declares the name Salacia to be only a surname of Venus, while in another passage (ad Georg. 1.31) he observes, that Cicero, in hit Timaeus, applied the name to the Greek Tethys, which we cannot wonder at, since the natural tendency was to identify Salacia with some Greek marine divinity. (Comp. Cic. de Univers. 11 ; Gellius, 13.22; August. l.c. 4.10.) [L.S]

SALACIA

(Σαλακεία,Ptol. 2.5.3), a municipal town of Lusitania, in the territory of the Turdetani, to the NW. of Pax Julia and to the SW. of Ebora. It appears from inscriptions to have had the surname of Urbs Imperatoria. (Gruter, p. 13. 16; Mionnet, 1. p. 4; Sestini, p. 16.) Salacia was celebrated for its manufacture of fine woollen cloths. (Plin. Nat. 8.48. s. 73; Strab. 3. p. 144, with the note of Groskurd.) Now Alaçer do Sal. (Florez, Esp. Sagr. 13. p. 115, 14. p. 241; comp. Mela, 3.1; It. Ant. pp. 417, 418, and 422.)

A town of the Callaici Bracarii in the NW. of Hispania Tarraconensis. (Itin. Ant. p. 422.) Identified either with Salamonde or Pombeiro. [T.H.D]

A Roman goddess of the salt water. She was identified with the Greek Amphitrité, and regarded as the wife of Neptune. See Neptunus; Poseidon.