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
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
Augustus was made pontifex maximus, and it was only one step farther to elevate the chief magistrate to the rank of a god.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Morris Jastrow
Numerous lighted lamps illuminated these ceremonies, after which the chief priest, the pontifex maximus, consecrated the area, and from that moment it became settled and immovable.
From The Wonders of Pompeii by Marc Monnier
Whether it was to be inserted or not depended on the pontifices, who kept their secret jealously.
From The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh
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
I delivered a speech before the pontifices on the 29th of September.
From The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh
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
To the pontifices and the augurs, of whom he was one, and to the so-called Fifteen he added one each, although he really wished to take all the priesthoods himself, as had been decreed.
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
