[DesertRhino]

The Roman spreading salt on an area thing was ceremonial, more like a curse. But back then, salt was way too valuable to spread across an area. The word salary literally comes from the Latin Sal, leaning salt. Roman soldiers were paid in it.

[cnsmom]

Can’t fire trucks pump water out of swimming pools in a emergency and credit homeowners for the water.

[fidelis]

The Roman spreading salt on an area thing was ceremonial, more like a curse. But back then, salt was way too valuable to spread across an area. The word salary literally comes from the Latin Sal, leaning salt. Roman soldiers were paid in it.

My understanding is that they would have used inferior or contaminated salt, of the type thrown on the roads to keep them weed-free:

Matthew 5:13:
“You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot by men.