pontifex
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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
With the exception of the pontifex maximus, who was elected by the people from an early date, the priesthoods were filled by nomination or coöptation.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly
Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei Vitabit Libitinam: usque ego postera Crescam laude recens, dum Capitolium Scandet cum tacita virgine pontifex.
From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund
This sphere was under the direction of a college of priests, at whose head stood the pontifex maximus.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly
