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▪ I. Salian1, a. and n.|ˈseɪlɪən|
[f. L. Sali-us (usually n. pl. Saliī, lit. ‘leapers, dancers’, f. salīre to leap) + -an.]
a. adj. Of or pertaining to the Salii or priests of Mars in ancient Rome.
b. n. One of the Salii.
1653R. Sanders Physiogn. 22 Numa Pompilius also instituted 12 Salian Priests in the honour of Mars. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xxviii. (1787) III. 71 The confraternities of the Salians, the Lupercals, &c. practised such rites, as might extort a smile of contempt from every reasonable man. 1857H. Spencer in Westm. Rev. Apr. 462 Among the Romans, too, there were sacred dances: the Salian and Lupercalian being named as of that kind. 1871Farrar Witn. Hist. iii. 107 The catacomb triumphed over the Grecian temple; the cross of shame over the wine-cup and the Salian banquet.
▪ II. Salian2, a. and n.|ˈseɪlɪən|
[f. late L. Sali-ī, the Salian Franks + -an.]
a. adj. Of or belonging to a tribe of Franks who inhabited a region near the Zuyder Zee, and to whom the ancestors of the Merovingian dynasty belonged. (Cf. salic a.1)
b. n. A Salian Frank.
1614Selden Titles Hon. ii. i. 175 The old Franks which were Teutonique, and calld also Salians. a1727Newton Obs. Proph. Daniel i. v. (1733) 43 By the access of these Gauls, and of the foreign Franks also,..the Salian kingdom soon grew very great. 1830Grattan Hist. Netherlands 11 The Salians, and the other petty tribes of Franks, their allies, were essentially warlike. 1837Keightley Hist. Eng. I. 208 This regulation of the descent of the French crown, was said, though improperly, to depend on a law of the Salian Franks, hence called the Salic law. 1879Encycl. Brit. IX. 529/2 There is in the Salian law no trace of a primitive nobility. |