pontifex

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The new pontifex maximus has much work ahead of him to wrangle the faithful into unity.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2025

If he sometimes sounds like a pontifex maximus, he generally talks neither down nor with false humility.

From Time Magazine Archive

This sphere was under the direction of a college of priests, at whose head stood the pontifex maximus.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

After the death of the augur, he transferred himself to the care of Q. Mucius Scaevola, the pontifex maximus, a still more famous jurisconsult, nephew of the augur.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various

Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei Vitabit Libitinam: usque ego postera Crescam laude recens, dum Capitolium Scandet cum tacita virgine pontifex.

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund