[5] He may have been a legate, commanding a fleet in Greece, during the Second Macedonian War from 199–98 before being relieved by Lucius Quinctius Flaminius.
[6] In 193 BC, he was a cavalry prefect under the consul Lucius Cornelius Merula in Gaul, during which he engaged in a battle near Mutina against the Boii.
[7] Salinator was elected as praetor in the year 191 BC during which he was assigned to command a Roman fleet in the Aegean during the war on Antiochus there defeated Antiochus' fleet near Corycus.
[8] He was prorogued into 190 BC before being succeeded by Lucius Aemilius Regillus, one of the praetors of that year, and completed a mission in Lycia and headed an embassy to Bithynia before returning home.
[9] Elected to the consulship of 188 BC, Salinator was assigned to Gaul but three days before he left, on 17 July under the proleptic Julian calendar, a total solar eclipse placed Rome into darkness.