_salutem alicui dicere, impertire, nuntiare_—to greet a person.
_aliquem salvere iubere_ (Att. 4. 14)—to greet a person.
_quid agis?_[1]—how are you?
_quid agitur? quid fit?_—what is going on? how are you getting on?
_Cicero Attico_[2] _S.D.P. (salutem dicit plurimam)_—Cicero sends
cordial greetings to Atticus.
_tibi plurimam salutem_—my best wishes for your welfare.
_nuntia fratri tuo salutem verbis meis_ (Fam. 7. 14)—remember me to
your brother.
_adscribere alicui salutem_ (Att. 5. 20. 9)—to add to one's letter
good wishes to some one.
_salute data (accepta) redditaque_—after mutual greeting.
_inter se consalutare_ (De Or. 2. 3. 13)—to exchange greetings.
_dextram alicui porrigere, dare_—to give one's right hand to some one.
_dextram iungere cum aliquo, dextras inter se iungere_—to shake hands
with a person.
_te valere_[3] _iubeo_—I bid you good-bye, take my leave.
_vale_ or _cura ut valeas_—good-bye; farewell.
_bene ambula et redambula_—a safe journey to you.
_gratulari alicui aliquid_ or _de aliqua re_—to congratulate a person
on something.
[1] _quid agis?_ is also used as an expression of surprise, "what are
you thinking of?"
[2] This and the following phrase only epistolary.
[3] _valedicere alicui_ is poetical.