Salii

And he chose virgins for the service of Vesta, who should keep alive the sacred fire, and twelve priests of Mars, whom he called the Salii, to be keepers of the sacred shield.

Stories From Livy Alfred John Church 1870

'Salii' -- exsultantes, [17] -- such as their own armed priests of war: and by us now with some little farther, but slight equivocation, into useful meaning, to be thought of as here first Salient, as a beaked promontory, towards the France we know of; and evermore, in brilliant elasticities of temper, a salient or out-sallying nation; lending to us

Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens John Ruskin 1859

“I do not at all know,” said he; “but it is pretended, that among an ancient people called the Salii, who were unable either to read or write, there existed a written law, which enacted, that in the Salic territory a daughter should not inherit any freehold.”

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

And when all his preparations were made, he first marched against the Franks, that is against that tribe of them usually called Salii, who some time before had ventured with great boldness to fix their habitations on the Roman soil near Toxandria. [

The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens Ammianus Marcellinus 1851

The priests of Mars were twelve in number, and were called Salii, or the dancers, from the fact that sacred dances, in full armour, formed an important item in their peculiar ceremonial.

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

The priests called Salii are said to owe their origin to the following circumstances: In the eighth year of Numa's reign an epidemic raged throughout Italy, and afflicted the city of Rome.

Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839

These priests were called Salii, not, as some say, after a man of

Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839

Similarly he chose twelve "Salii" for Mars Gradivus, and assigned to them the distinctive dress of an embroidered tunic and over it a brazen cuirass.

The History of Rome, Vol. I 1905

Antonius Bombardinus in his "De Carcere Tractatus"; Gutherlethus in his work on the "Salii," or Priests of Mars; the learned

Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852

The word "Salii" was consistently printed as Salü (u with umlaut); it has been corrected for the e-text.

A Treatise on the Art of Dancing Giovanni-Andrea Gallini 1766