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
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
He took the title of pontifex maximus, head sacrificial priest of the Roman dominion, the most ancient of all the titles that the emperors had enjoyed.
From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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
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
Such a condition of society would, of course, have greatly added to the pontifical work of religious adjustment; it would have been more than even the pontifices could have successfully achieved.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
I believe that these ideas were encouraged by the pontifices, but were not founded on fact.
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
I will finish this lecture by illustrating briefly this renewed and extended activity of the pontifices, so far as we can dimly trace it in this third century B.C.
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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