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
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
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
The object apparently was to avoid the necessity of the presence of a pontifex and augur, which was required at the comitia curiata.
From The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh
By this means he persuaded the pontifices to give back to him the foundation as properly his and unconsecrated.
From Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44). by Herbert Baldwin Foster
The work of the pontifices touched the life of every day, public and private, at many points, with the result that their secrets ceased to be secrets by the end of the fourth century B.C.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
That century is also the age in which the pontifices were probably most active in drawing up comprecationes; see below, p.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
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
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
