mola salsa

Latin

Noun

mola salsa f (genitive molae salsae); first declension

(religion) sacred flour
- c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Amphitryon 740:
  […] aut mola salsa hodie aut ture comprecatam oportuit.
- c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.7:
  Numa instituit deos fruge colere et mola salsa supplicare atque, […]

References

mola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Further reading

mola salsa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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