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Definition of Pontifices
1. pontifex [n] - See also: pontifex
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pontifices
Literary usage of Pontifices
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Rome by Wilhelm Ihne (1882)
"The character of a legal system so peculiar to the Roman religion is particularly
apparent in the office of the pontifices. This college of priests under ..."
2. The history of Rome by Theodor Mommsen, William Purdie Dickson, Joseph Anton F. Wilhelm Ihne (1882)
"In the older time, when divine law had yet the preponderance over civil law, the
pontifices were probably the most important personages both in making and ..."
3. The Evolution of the Aryan by Rudolf von Jhering, Adolphus Drucker (1897)
"Correctly speaking, the pontifices* were those whose business it was to ...
The pontifices, therefore, were the makers of the bridges, the bridge-masters. ..."
4. The Roman History, from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth by Nathaniel Hooke (1830)
"The eighth, and most venerable of all the dif- D. Hal ferent bodies consecrated
to religion, was the pontifices ;fi^f.' p' *• the origin of which name is ..."
5. The History of Rome by Wilhelm Ihne (1871)
"... A further mark of progress was the admission cf plebeians to the priestly
offices of augurs and pontifices by the ..."
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