pontifex

• The office of the pontifex was originally that of building and keeping custody of the bridges of the city, the name being derived from the Latin word pons , which signifies bridge. —  History of Julius Caesar
• At the front in white is Vespasian as the pontifex maximus. —  About.com Ancient / Classical History
• If he is right, it may be that the three flamines maiores_, who were reckoned in strict religious sense as above the pontifices including their head (Festus, p. 185), needed "holiness more than any pontifex, and so with the augurs. —  The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
• They could not have needed the aid of a pontifex, or a solemn voti nuncupatio_, i.e. statement of the promise; they were rather, as De Marchi asserts,[410] spontaneous expressions of what we may call religious feeling; and it may be that he is right in maintaining that throughout Roman history they remained as expressions of the religious sense and of the better feeling of the lower classes. —  The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
• The pontifex was no longer indispensable to the suitor at law, nor to the citizen who wished to know on what day he might proceed with his suit. —  The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus

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