Pontifex

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 1 §20 pontifex

  Member of Rome's chief priestly college and overseer of sacred law.

• The History of Rome, Book 2 §2 pontifex

  A member of Rome's chief priestly college, overseeing public religion; the rex sacrorum was placed under his authority.

• The History of Rome, Book 4 §3 the pontiffs

  Members of the chief priestly college, keepers of sacred law, the calendar, and the public records.

• The History of Rome, Book 6 §41 pontiffs, then, and augurs, and sacrificing kings

  The chief priestly offices—the pontiffs who oversaw the state cult, the augurs who read the auspices, and the rex sacrorum—which Appius says the laws would profane by opening to the unfit.

• The History of Rome, Book 8 §9 public pontiff

  A member of the chief priestly college; here Marcus Valerius dictates the devotio formula.

• The History of Rome, Book 10 §6 pontiffs

  The chief college of Roman priests, overseeing the state religion and the calendar.

• The History of Rome, Book 22 §9 college of pontiffs

  The pontiffs, the chief college of Roman priests overseeing the state cults.

• The History of Rome, Book 23 §21 three pontiffs were created

  Member of the chief priestly college overseeing the state religion; vacancies from Cannae are filled here.

• The History of Rome, Book 24 §44 by decree of the pontiffs

  Member of the chief priestly college that oversaw the state religion and prescribed expiations.

• The History of Rome, Book 25 §2 a pontiff

  Member of the college of pontiffs overseeing the state cult; several die and are replaced in §2.

• The History of Rome, Book 27 §4 the pontiffs

  The college of pontiffs, the chief Roman priestly board overseeing sacred law and expiations.

• The History of Rome, Book 30 §1 college of pontiffs

  The college of pontiffs, the chief priestly board of Rome, which named the gods to be appeased after prodigies.

• The History of Rome, Book 31 §8 college of pontiffs

  The college of pontiffs, the chief priestly board of Rome, which ruled that an uncertain vow could rightly be made.

• The History of Rome, Book 41 §18 pontifex

  A member of the chief priestly college overseeing the state religion, headed by the pontifex maximus.

• The History of Rome, Book 42 §32 pontifex, who the year

  A member of the chief college of Roman priests (the pontifices), who oversaw the state religion and sacred law.