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
This sphere was under the direction of a college of priests, at whose head stood the pontifex maximus.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
This assembly also met, under the name of the comitia calata and under the presidency of the pontifex maximus, for certain religious acts.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various
Besides, in his talk he was lord and more—sultan, pontifex maximus.
From Oscar Wilde An Idler's Impression by Edgar Saltus
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
We may thus be quite certain, that though they had lost their old monopoly of religious knowledge, the pontifices found plenty of fresh work to do in this period.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
Like the pontifices, the augurs also had their books, libri augurales.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
Here we have to do with the pontifices and their work in this period, a thorny and somewhat technical subject, but a most important one for the history of Roman religious experience.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
There were originally five pontifices, and the number was afterwards raised to fifteen.
From History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems by Allan Menzies
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