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
Under the republic and emperors the pontifex maximus was the supreme religious dignitary.
From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. Westbrook
The pontifex was no longer indispensable to the suitor at law, nor to the citizen who wished to know on what day he might proceed with his suit.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
At the age of thirty-seven he was elected pontifex maximus over two3038 powerful competitors.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Charles Dudley Warner
On the former date, the flamen Quirinalis, assisted by the vestals, offered sacrifice, and the pontifices presided at horse and chariot races in the circus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various
In order to get some idea of the work of the pontifices 274at this time, let us consider one or two of these difficulties and problems.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
In order to understand how the pontifices attained their great position, the one thing needful is to examine the nature of their work.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
Until the lex Domitia of 104 B.C. both pontifices and augurs filled up their own colleges with persons whom they believed qualified both by knowledge and disposition.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
Of the di indigetes of an earlier period he could hardly know more than we do ourselves; his only sources of information were the facts of the cult and the books of the pontifices.
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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