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
Do I err, saying this? or did that most illustrious man, Publius Scipio, pontifex maximus, when in no magisterial office, take off Tiberius Gracchus, for merely disturbing the established order of the state?
From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 by Henry William Herbert
But even he was placed under the authority of the chief pontifex.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by John Rudd
These members begin to be found holding also civil magistracies, and the pontifex maximus was often a consul of the year.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
The master or superintendent of the pontifices was one of the most honorable offices in the commonwealth.
From Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) by Charles K. Dillaway
We saw at the end of the last lecture how the pontifices contributed to such a result.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
She dared not, as she would gladly have done, appear before the pontifices and demand of them that they mete out due punishment on Gabinius for grossly insulting the sanctity of a Vestal.
From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by William Stearns Davis
In later times the flamines still retain their original character, the pontifices and especially the pontifex maximus are responsible for the whole organisation of the state-religion and are the guardians and interpreters of religious lore.
From The Religion of Ancient Rome by Cyril Bailey
Servius tells us that the pontifices addressed even Jupiter himself thus: "Iupiter optime maxime, sive quo alio nomine te appellari volueris."
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
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