pontifex

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A high priest; a pontiff.

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By the beginning of the 1st Century BC, the Rex Sacrorum was all but forgotten and the pontifex maximus given almost complete religious authority over the Roman religion. Source: Internet

Also, he remained pontifex maximus and was deified by the Roman Senate after his death. Source: Internet

Lepidus surrendered to Octavian and was permitted to retain the office of pontifex maximus (head of the college of priests), but was ejected from the Triumvirate, his public career at an end, and effectively was exiled to a villa at Cape Circei in Italy. Source: Internet

Modern scholars have speculated that it would be impossible to cover offices as pontifex and consul for a blind man for more than twenty years. Source: Internet

The amnesty was granted by the senate and guaranteed by the pontifex maximus Quintus Furius (in Livy's version) (or Marcus Papirius) who also supervised the nomination of the new tribunes of the plebs, then gathered on the Aventine Hill. Source: Internet

The pontifex maximus, however, was the de facto highest religious official, who held most of the king’s religious authority. Source: Internet

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