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
Do I err, saying this? or did that most illustrious man, Publius Scipio, pontifex maximus, when in no magisterial office, take off Tiberius Gracchus, for merely disturbing the established order of the state?
From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 by Herbert, Henry William
The pope borrowed his title of pontifex maximus from the emperor: what is far more, he made himself gradually, and in the course of centuries, the Caesar and Imperator of the Church.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
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 Warner, Charles Dudley
