Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Insicia

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

INSIC'IA and INSIC'IUM. Minced meat, or sausage meat. (Varro, L. L. v. 110. Macrob. Sat. vii. 1. Donat. ad Ter. Eun. ii. 2. 26.) The modern Italians retain the form in their name of a sausage, "salsiccia," corrupted from salisisicia, i. e. minced and salted.