Citations:addito salis grano

English citations of addito salis grano

• 2020, Franz Lidz, Here Lies the Skull of Pliny the Elder, Maybe, The New York Times (14 February 2020);

  She quoted an idiom that Pliny coined in a recipe for a kind of antidote to poison: addito salis grano — with a grain of salt. “We’ve appropriated the phrase to mean read or take with caution,” she said.