Bruno uses the term pontifex a scant nine times in a document some 7200 words long. From Wordnik.com. [Hamilton: "A Liturgy of Reform"] Reference
Candelae which makes several strong assertions of Petrine authority and uses the title pontifex throughout. 20 Even. From Wordnik.com. [Hamilton: "A Liturgy of Reform"] Reference
FESSIO: Well, yes, pontiff comes from the Latin word "pontifex," which means a builder of a bridge. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2005] Reference
I believe he's arranging for me to be a pontifex, and you an augur. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
The ceremony required the presence of an augur and a pontifex to hold it. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
He was the pontifex in his home, making offerings to the family and state gods in his own home. From Wordnik.com. [Purity Balls have Nothing to do with Balls. | Mind on Fire] Reference
Cotta, I am putting you in charge of the investigation, as you are the longest-serving pontifex. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Arriving speeds the chromatic we stay with fire arrows jasper pontifex declare an imaginative risk. From Wordnik.com. [Barbara Guest] Reference
Gaius Cotta is a pontifex and Lucius Cotta is an augur, which gives them a religious importance too. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
In fact, the concept of an emperor grew out of the pontifex maximus whose familia was the whole state. From Wordnik.com. [Purity Balls have Nothing to do with Balls. | Mind on Fire] Reference
It took their priesthood, their pontifex, their pontiff, and gave it a whole new meaning, a whole new level. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2005] Reference
Imperator Caesar Vespasianus Augustus, holder of tribunician power, consul for the third time, pontifex maximns. From Wordnik.com. [Crusader Gold]
In the section on the pallium Bruno distinguishes between pontifex which refers to all bishops and summus pontifex. From Wordnik.com. [Hamilton: "A Liturgy of Reform"] Reference
And he was appointed pontifex maximus, in spite of the fact that many others, Catulus most of all, were his rivals for the honor. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44).] Reference
This would be much simpler if we could simply pay a fee and have the airport pontifex do all the propitiation needed ahead of time. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
Two mammals that are endemic to this region are the pink fairy armadillo (Chlamyphrous truncatus), and the tuco-tuco, Ctenomys pontifex. From Wordnik.com. [Arid Chaco] Reference
The pontifex maximus, we are told with precision, kept a. From Wordnik.com. [The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus] Reference
The Druids had a pontifex maximus to whom they yielded entire obedience. From Wordnik.com. [Atlantis : the antediluvian world] Reference
What a canonist was to Mediaeval Europe, a pontifex was to senatorial Rome. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference
P. Scipio Nasica ... ob eas virtutes primus omnium absens pontifex maximus factus est. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate] Reference
Caesar, Julius: belief in spells, 59; calendar, 95; pontifex maximus, 305; and the priesthood, 343. From Wordnik.com. [The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus] Reference
He again raised his cane with the gravity of a Roman pontifex, marking off his templum in the heavens. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Dog] Reference
You are so active and so busy, and cast bullets (62) and build bridges, are pontifex maximus, and, like Sir John. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference
Rome "pontifex maximus," thereby proving that he clearly recognised the heathen colouring given to the episcopal office. From Wordnik.com. [History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)] Reference
These members begin to be found holding also civil magistracies, and the pontifex maximus was often a consul of the year. From Wordnik.com. [The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus] Reference
The story suggests to me that the rite had been at one time well known; the pontifex maximus was ready with the instructions and formula. From Wordnik.com. [The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus] Reference
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