How To Use pontifex In A Sentence
- 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
- FESSIO: Well, yes, pontiff comes from the Latin word "pontifex," which means a builder of a bridge. CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2005
- Cæsar might be ready to go to war; but if the Pontifex Maximus at Number XI opens any one of five pigeons and pronounces its entrails unpropitious, then the legions must stand down.
- Born in 100 B.C.; assassinated in 44; famous as general, statesman, orator, and writer; served in Mitylene in 80; captured by pirates in 76; questor in 68; pontifex maximus in 63; propretor in Spain in 61; member of the First The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome
- He received it, notwithstanding the labarum, and received further the title of Pontifex Maximus, which he retained all his life. A Philosophical Dictionary
- Pontifex Romanus prorsus inermis regibus terrae jura dat, ad regna evehit ad pacem cogit, et peccantes castigat, &c. quod imperatores Romani 40. legionibus armati non effecerunt. Anatomy of Melancholy
- It took their priesthood, their pontifex, their pontiff, and gave it a whole new meaning, a whole new level.
- It is lacking in the Lane-Pontifexes, who make her spirits sink every time they ask the Minivers to dinner; but it is there in abundance in Mrs. B, the new charlady, "with her large good-humoured laugh". Mrs. Miniver
- Our basement was given over to the storage of wills, but Caesar Pontifex Maximus worked out how to take enough of it to make the best hypocaust in Rome. Antony and Cleopatra
- In the curious ceremony of the fixing of the Nones (the first quarter of the month), held on the Calends in the _curia Calabra_, she seems to appear as a moon-goddess: the _rex sacrorum_, after a report from a _pontifex_ as to the appearance of the new moon, announces the result in the formula: The Religion of Ancient Rome
