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Salus (disambiguation)

Salus may refer to:

  • Salus, Roman goddess of health and prosperity
  • Salus, Iran, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
  • Salus University, in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, the United States
  • Peter H. Salus, linguist, computer scientist
  • Robert Salus (born 1877), Austrian ophthalmologist
  • Hugo Salus (born 1866) German-language writer, poet, and doctor, Prague, Czechoslovakia
  • Agua Mineral Salus, a brand of bottled mineral water of the Salus company, Uruguay
Salus

Salus is one of the most ancient Roman Goddesses: she is also recorded once as Salus Semonia, a fact that might hint to her belonging to the category of the Semones, such as god Semo Sancus Dius Fidius. This view though is disputed among scholars. The issue is discussed in the section below. The two gods had temples in Rome on the Collis Salutaris and Mucialis respectively, two adjacent hilltops of the Quirinal, located in the regio known as Alta Semita. Her temple, as Salus Publica Populi Romani, was voted in 304 BC, during the Samnite wars, by dictator Gaius Junius Bubulcus Brutus, dedicated on 5 August 302 and adorned with frescos at the order of Gaius Fabius Pictor.

The high antiquity and importance of her cult is testified by the little-known ceremony of the Augurium Salutis, held every year on August 5 for the preservation of the Roman state. Her cult was spread over all Italy. Literary sources record relationships with Fortuna and Spes. She started to be increasingly associated to Valetudo, the Goddess of Personal Health, which was the real romanized name of Hygieia.

Later she became more a protector of personal health. Around 180 BCE sacrificial rites in honour of Apollo, Aesculapius, and Salus took place there (Livius XL, 37). There was a statue to Salus in the temple of Concordia. She is first known to be associated with the snake of Aesculapius from a coin of 55 BC minted by M. Acilius. Her festival was celebrated on March 30.

Usage examples of "salus".

Sol, Luna, Tellus, Neptunus, Orcus, Proserpina, in part of moral and social qualities and states, such as Febris, Salus, Mens, Spes, Pudicitia, Pietas, Fides, Concordia, Virtus, Bellona, Victoria, Pax, Libertas, and others.

Agrippa prompted, heeding the message: he too must offer to Salus every day.

Sali was probably not the most alert of subjects, unschooled in countersurveillance.

Uda bin Sali, who had, CIA said the Brits had reported, evidently dropped dead of a heart attack in central London.

Sans doute se serait-il senti moins gravement sali par des refrains en belle langue bien luisante.

Sali was in the capital-preservation business, which meant not so much growing the money entrusted to him as making sure the lockbox had a really good lock.

Uda bin Sali really did have a myocardial infarction while he was daydreaming about his favorite whore in downtown London.

This Sali guy might just be a rich kid playing stickball out in the traffic, but .

Fifteen minutes later, he e-mailed the report to Thames House, and then printed it up for the Sali file, which would in due course go to the closed files in Central Records, probably never to be heard from again.

He remembered something from his Catholic prep school, a passage from Virgil's Aeneid that had defined his mission almost two thousand years before: Una salus victus nullam sperare salutem.