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pontifex

pontiff

also: pontifices, pontiff

A member of the College of Pontiffs, the chief priestly body overseeing Rome's public religion. Cotta speaks as a pontiff himself when treating the public rites.

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Mentioned in 22 works (100 total)

On the Agrarian Law, Second Speech speeches · 2 mentions
Against Catiline, First Speech speeches · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 1.13 letters · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 4.1 letters · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 4.2 letters · 3 mentions
On His House speeches · 48 mentions
On the Responses of the Haruspices speeches · 9 mentions
On the Consular Provinces speeches · 1 mention
On the Orator rhetoric · 2 mentions
For Marcus Aemilius Scaurus speeches · 1 mention
On the Laws philosophy · 10 mentions
Brutus rhetoric · 1 mention
On the Nature of the Gods philosophy · 4 mentions
For King Deiotarus speeches · 1 mention
Cato the Elder, On Old Age philosophy · 4 mentions
On Duties philosophy · 1 mention
Laelius, On Friendship philosophy · 1 mention
Topics: To Gaius Trebatius rhetoric · 1 mention
Ad M. Brutum 1.15 letters · 1 mention
Eleventh Philippic speeches · 1 mention
Thirteenth Philippic speeches · 2 mentions
Fifth Philippic speeches · 4 mentions

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