pontifex
Example Sentences
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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
Under the republic and emperors the pontifex maximus was the supreme religious dignitary.
From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Westbrook, Richard B.
Gratian was the first emperor to refuse the title of pontifex maximus, and to deprive paganism of its status as an official religion of Rome.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly
On the re-enactment of the Lex Domitia de sacerdotiis, Caesar was elected pontifex maximus.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by Middleton, George
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
