What is "pontifice"

Usage examples of "pontifice".

After that he set himself up in the official domain of the Pontifex Maximus just behind the Regia, lit all the lamps, sent for the Regia priestlings, and made sure there were enough chairs for the pontifices at present in Rome.

But it was a decision made by the College of Pontifices, and if the members were not kept up to the mark by a conscientious Pontifex Maximus, the calendar fell by the wayside, as it did now.

College of Pontifices took its duties seriously, and intercalated an extra twenty days every two years, after the month of February.

It took control of membership in the priestly colleges of pontifices and augurs away from the incumbent members, who had traditionally co-opted new members.

Magnus, whereas it gives Caesar a chance he could never have had when the College of Pontifices chose its own Pontifex Maximus.

He had left the most important interview until last, deeming it better to establish his authority within the College of Pontifices before he saw the Vestal Virgins.

Generations of wealthy Pontifices Maximi had poured money and care into it, even knowing that whatever portable they gave, from chryselephantine tables to inlaid Egyptian couches, could not later be removed for the benefit of family heirs.

I imagine one of the Pontifices Maximi of that era deciphered the originals and made these copies.

I question the legality of anything beyond what has already been donea pronouncement by the College of Pontifices that Publius Clodius did commit sacrilege.

It specified that new pontifices and augurs must be elected by a tribal Assembly comprising seventeen of the thirty-five tribes chosen by lot.

Until this law, pontifices and augurs were co-opted by the College members.

Its one room was a mere ten feet by seven feet, so Sulla was grateful for the fact that neither the College of Pontifices nor the College of Augurs was anywhere near full membership.

College of Pontifices and the College of Augurs do not agree with you, young Caesar.

Leaving behind him-among many other things-a vacancy in the College of Pontifices, for he had been in length of years the oldest serving pontifex.

Until this law, pontifices and augurs were co-opted by the college members.