I have just started to read Salt A World History, by Mark Kurlansky-- we have discussed some it before, not to long ago, and i have provided a link to information about the book on line.. http://www.saltbook.com/book.php

Kurlanshy claims in the the intro, that the Latin word salex, is from salt.. and meant "salty" --"salt eyed" and from this we get salacious.. but when i checked Bartleby, it said something different.. here is the link, and most of info copied.

Kurlansky claims the romans used salted eyed the way we use (or used to use, since i haven't heard the term used in years!)"sheep eyed" to mean well, what salacious means! there is a good deal of evidence that salt is associated with sexual prowess, and success.. and general over all good health and stamina.

I didn't go and check on his sourses, for the salt/salex/sel/salacious connetion.. but i thought i might bring it up here...

when salt came up before, we didn not fully explore the word or all the idioms that refer or use salt.

http://www.bartleby.com/61/58/S0035800.html
salacious
ADJECTIVE: 1. Appealing to or stimulating sexual desire; lascivious. 
2. Lustful; bawdy.
ETYMOLOGY:  From Latin sal*x, sal*c-, fond of leaping, lustful, 
from salre, to leap. 
See sel- in Appendix I

sel-
DEFINITION: To jump. 1. Suffixed zero-grade form *sal-yo-. a. salacious, 
salient, sally, sauté; assail, assault, desultory, 
dissilient, exult, insult, resile, result, somersault, from 
Latin sal*re, to leap; 
b. halter2, from Greek hallesthai, to leap, jump. 
2. Probably Latin salm* (borrowed from Gaulish),salmon(< “the leaping fish”): 
salmon. (Pokorny 4. sel- 899.)


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