Thy own nation and the pontifices tradiderunt te chief priests have delivered mihi: quid fecisti?
The chief priests pontifices et pharisaei therefore and the Pharisees concilium et dicebant: Quid gathered a council, and said: facimus, quia hic homo multa What do we, for this man doth signa facit?
What think you, that Dederant autem pontifices et he is not come to the festival pharisaei mandatum, ut si quis day?
The error was estimated to amount to eleven days; the correction of which was assumed by the Roman Pontifex, but with the aid of a science far more accurate than had been possessed by the Pontifices of the older time.
In the hands of the Pontifices the Roman year had again been getting more and more out of order, until, in the days of Julius Caesar, the first of January had retrograded nearly to the autumnal equinox.
The Pontifices also explain, to those who inquire of them, the proper ceremonies at funerals.
The Pontifices are so called, according to some authorities, because they worship the gods, who are powerful and almighty; for powerful in Latin is potens.
Religious functions primarily devolved on the two colleges of men of priestly lore alone known to the earliest Latin constitution, the municipal pontifices and augurs.
The master or superintendent of the pontifices was one of the most honorable offices in the commonwealth.
But it was not until a late period that the pontifices formed the scheme of a formal chronicle (-liber annalis-), which should steadily year by year record the names of all the magistrates and the remarkable events.
On the other hand the two colleges of Pontifices and of augurs, with which a considerable influence over the courts and the comitia were associated, were too important to remain in the exclusive possession of the patricians.
Footnote 387: It is not clear that Clodius was wrong; the pontifices decided that for a valid consecration an order of the people was requisite, and, of course, Clodius could allege such an order.
I delivered a speech before the pontifices on the 29th of September.
The consulars led by Favonius murmur: I hold my tongue, the more so that the pontifices have as yet given no answer in regard to my house.
The pontifices had to decide whether that consecration held good, or whether the site might be restored to Cicero.
To the pontificesand the augurs, of whom he was one, and to the so-called Fifteen he added one each, although he really wished to take all the priesthoods himself, as had been decreed.
By this means he persuaded the pontifices to give back to him the foundation as properly his and unconsecrated.
He was not only selected by the Pontificesto write the poem on the victory of Sena (207 B.
Just as the chancellorship and primacy of England were often in the hands of one person and that an ecclesiastic, so in Rome the pontifices had at first the making of almost all law.
Footnote 383: That article condemns the following proposition: "Romani Pontifices et Concilia oecumenica a limitibus suae potestati recesserunt, jura Principum usurparunt, atque etiam in rebus fidei et morum definiendis errarunt.
They were reported to the pontifices from the places where they were supposed to have occurred, and if thought worthy of expiation were entered in the pontifical books.
The one essential thing to remember is that it was in all periods the magistrate who was responsible, under the sanction and advice of his assistants the pontifices and augurs, for the maintenance of the pax deorum.
That these formulae were taken from the books of the pontifices is almost certain, not only from the internal evidence of the prayers themselves, but because Servius (Interpol.
The real origin of the pontifices and their name is unknown to us.
It was the duty of the pontifices so to adjust the necessary intercalations as to effect this object--a duty to which they were, as it turned out, quite unequal.
Never before had they been so frequently consulted; the ordinary piacula of the pontifices were not thought of; a consul had grievously broken the pax deorum, and what remedy was possible no Roman authority could tell.
I am inclined to think it is only an inference from the want of substantival names in so many Roman deities; surely, it would be argued, the pontifices must have had some reason for this.
But the only unquestionably genuine old Roman prayers used at sacrifice, taken from the books of the pontifices and preserved word for word, are those which Cato embodied in his treatise on agriculture in the second century B.
We may thus be quite certain, that though they had lost their old monopoly of religious knowledge, the pontifices found plenty of fresh work to do in this period.
A curious mistake was soon made at Rome by the Pontifices who had the regulation of the Kalendar.
The expression might mean that both the year one and the year four were to be included in the interpretation of this rule; and the Pontifices interpreted it accordingly.
Pontifices Chapter XV Art Artistic Endowment of the Italians Poetry is impassioned language, and its modulation is melody.
Augurs--Pontifices Under the Roman constitution and that of the Latin communities in general there were originally but two such colleges; that of the augurs and that of the Pontifices.
The clearest evidence of this is the fact, that in the communities organized on the Latin scheme augurs andPontifices occur everywhere (e.
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