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

Illico sanctissimus pontifex unxit oleo sancto Carolum, &c.—

From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois

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

Sed compescuit tale consilium pontifex sperans conversionem principis.

From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois