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
Again, the master of ceremonies at papal mass prompts the pontiff at each stage of the function as did his predecessors for Antoninus Pius or Marcus Aurelius when they too officiated as pontifex maximus.
From Rome by Malleson, Hope
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
And yet the Roman Emperor bore the title of pontifex maximus!
From Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Bolanden, Conrad von
