pontifex maximus
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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
The popular assembly remitted the fine, but Flaccus was ordered to obey the pontifex maximus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
The second part, at least, was addressed to Caesar as pontifex maximus.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by Middleton, George
And yet the Roman Emperor bore the title of pontifex maximus!
From Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Bolanden, Conrad von
