salsus adj. with comp. sal, salted, salt: Hoc salsumst, is too salt, T.: farra, O.: vada, briny, V.: fluctūs, Att. ap. C.: rubigo, V.

—Fig., sharp, acute, witty, facetious: homo: salsiores quam illi Romani sales: male salsus, satirically, H.

—Plur n. as subst: salsa Graecorum, witty sayings.