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Meanings of pontifex maximus in anglès
The chief high priest of the College of Pontiffs in ancient Rome, open only to patricians until 254 BCE, when a plebeian first occupied this post; gradually became politicized until, beginning with Augustus, it was subsumed into the Imperial office.
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Usage of pontifex maximus in anglès
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The Druids had a pontifex maximus to whom they yielded entire obedience.
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Caesar's struggle for the office of pontifex maximus.
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And he was appointed pontifex maximus, in spite of the fact that many others, Catulus most of all, were his rivals for the honor.
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Its founder was the - pontifex maximus- Quintus Mucius Scaevola (consul in 659, d. 672),(40) in whose family jurisprudence was, like the supreme priesthood, hereditary.
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At thirty-seven he was elected Pontifex Maximus-thehead of the State Religion.
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Finally, he was made Pontifex Maximus, the head of the Roman religion.
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Caesar was Pontifex Maximus, and Napoleon had himself crowned by the Pope.
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The Vestal virgins received especial honor, and were appointed by the Pontifex Maximus.
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I know it is the official house of the Pontifex Maximus.
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He was having a tryst right in the Pontifex Maximus's precinct.
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Consider, you had won the prætorship, the office of Pontifex Maximus-
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I plan a world priesthood, governed by the Roman Pontifex Maximus.
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He had the powers of consul, tribune, censor, and Pontifex Maximus.
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Eternity, Divinity, and Pontifex Maximus, as they had been given to his predecessors.
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The Pontifex Maximus inherited the priestly power of the kings.
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He would be a flamen, a tribune, perhaps Pontifex Maximus.
Translations for pontifex maximus
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