pontifex maximus
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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
And he was appointed pontifex maximus, in spite of the fact that many others, Catulus most of all, were his rivals for the honor.
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
With the exception of the pontifex maximus, who was elected by the people from an early date, the priesthoods were filled by nomination or coöptation.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
