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

Sed compescuit tale consilium pontifex sperans conversionem principis.

From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois

M. Æmilius Lepidus, master of the horse, 185; pontifex maximus, 186; in Second Triumvirate, 188–189; deposed, 192.

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

He simply retained all the great offices of State, and ruled, not so much by a new title, as he did as consul, tribune, censor, pontifex maximus, and chief of the Senate.

From Ancient States and Empires by Lord, John