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
He therefore resolved to sacrifice himself by devotio, and called on the pontifex maximus, who was present, to dictate for him the correct formula.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde
After the death of the augur, he transferred himself to the care of Q. Mucius Scaevola, the pontifex maximus, a still more famous jurisconsult, nephew of the augur.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
M. Æmilius Lepidus, master of the horse, 185; pontifex maximus, 186; in Second Triumvirate, 188–189; deposed, 192.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly
