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PONTIFEX.  Pontif or Priest of the gods among the people of heathen Rome. Many were the persons dedicated to the service of those false deities and in their corporate capacity they formed a college.  It is, however, to be observed that the individuals thus employed (and whose principal function was to offer sacrifices, not to any particular divinity but to all the gods of their mythology) did not constitute any seperate order set apart like that of the Christian clergy from civil employments, but were eligible with other citizens to exercise, at the same time, the office of magistrate and also to act in a military capacity.

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PONTIFEX




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PONTIFEX.  Pontif or Priest of the gods among the people of heathen Rome. Many were the persons dedicated to the service of those false deities and in their corporate capacity they formed a college.  It is, however, to be observed that the individuals thus employed (and whose principal function was to offer sacrifices, not to any particular divinity but to all the gods of their mythology) did not constitute any seperate order set apart like that of the Christian clergy from civil employments, but were eligible with other citizens to exercise, at the same time, the office of magistrate and also to act in a military capacity.

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