(adverb) : saltem (sometimes in MSS. saltim; cf. Aus. Ep. 7, 23; and Prisc. p. 1013 P.), old acc. form, from salvus, salus. prop.
* Saved, reserved (salvā re; compare Engl. save, except). It serves to point out that which still remains or holds good, in spite of or by way of exception to something opposed to it; and accordingly is used (like certe, II.) as a restrictive particle, at least, at the least, at all events, anyhow.
* Affirmatively (class.).
* With a statement of the opposite: si illud non licet, Saltem hoc licebit,Ter. Eun. 4, 2, 12; Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 26: semper tu hoc facito cogites, tute uti sis optimus: Si id nequeas, saltem ut optimis sis proximus,id. Trin. 2, 4, 86; cf. Quint. 10, 1, 127: saltem accurate, ut metui videar, si resciverim,Ter. And. 3, 2, 14: impetrabo, ut aliquot saltem nuptiis prodat dies,id. ib. 2, 1, 13: si alia membra vino madeant, cor sit saltem sobrium,Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 2: etsi istuc mihi acerbum'st ... saltem id volupe est, cum, etc.,id. Mil. 4, 5, 12: quo provocati a me venire noluerunt, revocati saltem revertantur,Cic. Agr. 3, 1, 1: attrepidate saltem, nam vos approperare haud postulo,Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 41; cf.: vere nihil potes dicere: finge aliquid saltem commode,Cic. Rosc. Am. 19, 54; id. Fl. 13, 35: eripe mihi hunc dolorem aut minue saltem,id. Att. 9, 6, 5: neque iis (militibus) posse persuaderi, ut eum defendant aut sequantur saltem, * Caes. B. C. 1, 6; Quint. 6, 5, 1; Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 52: utinam quietis temporibus atque aliquo, si non bono, at saltem certo statu civitatis haec inter nos studia exercere possemus! Cic. Fam. 9, 8, 2; id. Pis. 11, 24.—In a question: quis ego sum saltem, si non sum Sosia?tell me, at least, who I am; then who am I, pray?Plaut. Am. 1, 2, 282.
* With the negatives non, neque, to indicate that not even a single remaining thing specified holds good; and, consequently, = ne ... quidem, not at least, not even, nor even (so perh. only since the Aug. per.): ibi tribuni militum non praemunito vallo, non deorum saltem, si non hominum, memores, nec auspicato, etc. ... instruunt aciem,Liv. 5, 38; 2, 43, 8; 6, 2, 19; Quint. 10, 7, 20; Plin. Pan. 82, 1; App. M. 7, p. 194, 33 al.: neque enim mihi illud saltem placet, quod, etc.,Quint. 1, 1, 24; cf.: nec vero saltem iis sufficiat, etc.,id. 10, 2, 15: non fratrem, non patruum saltem porta tenus obvium,Tac. A. 3, 5 fin.: nec deformitate istā saltem flumina carebant atque amnes,Plin. Pan. 82, 3: ut ipsum iter neque impervium neque saltem durum putent,Quint. 12, 11, 11: nec mihi statuta saltem cibaria praestabantur,App. M. 7, p. 194, 33.—Cf. with vix: illud vix saltem praecipiendum videtur, ne, etc.,Quint. 6, 4, 15.—After ne ... quidem: ut ne a sententiis quidem ac verbis saltem singulis possit separari,Quint. 6, 5, 1.