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When in 61 B.C. Clodius was caught in disguise at the women's festival of the Bona Dea, the pontifices declared the act to be nefas, crime against the ius divinum; but we may doubt whether any of those pontifices really believed in the existence of such a deity.
Then M. Lucullus, speaking for all his colleagues, answered that the pontifices were judges of a question of religion, the senate of the validity of a law: that he and his colleagues had given a decision on a point of religion; in the senate they would with the other senators decide on the law.
The old sacrificing priesthoods, such as the Fratres Arvales and the lesser Flamines, seem not to have been filled up by the pontifices whose duty it was to do so: and the Flamen Dialis, the priest of Jupiter himself, is not heard of from 89 to 11 B.C., when he appears again as a part of the Augustan religious restoration.
Just as the old Saxon -writan- signifies properly to tear, thence to write. 20. -Ratio Tuscanica,: cavum aedium Tuscanicum. Augustin. De Civ. Dei, iv. 31; comp. Comp, above, XIV. Development of Alphabets in Italy. I. XIII. Handicrafts I. XII. Nature of the Roman Gods I. XII. Pontifices Art Artistic Endowment of the Italians Poetry is impassioned language, and its modulation is melody.
Fetiales They had precisely the same position with reference to international, as the Pontifices had with reference to religious, law; and were therefore, like the latter, entitled to point out the law, although not to administer it.
The municipal funds were managed by two quaestors. 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. Relation of the -Municipium- to the State
VIGINTI ET DUOS: the commoner order of the words is duos et viginti; see n. on 13 centum ... annos. EI SACERDOTIO: 'that sacred college'; i.e. the pontifical college consisting of the pontifex maximus and the inferior pontifices. REQUIRERET: see n. on 13 quaereretur. NIHIL: n. on 1, l. 1 quid. MIHI: dat. for acc. to emphasize the person.
But for a man who was sui iuris to be adopted required a formal meeting of the old comitia curiata, and such a meeting required the presence of an augur, as well as some kind of sanction of the pontifices. Cæsar was Pontifex Maximus, and Pompey was a member of the college of augurs. Their influence would be sufficient to secure or prevent this being done.
They had a general superintendence over private worship and their leave would be required for the introduction of any new domestic cult; in cases too where the private person was in doubt as to ritual or the legitimacy of any religious practice, he could appeal to the pontifices for decision.
The statements regarding the original number of the augurs in particular vary. On the number of the pontifices comp. Staatsrecht, ii. 20. It is only an unreflecting misconception that can discover in this usage a reminiscence of ancient human sacrifices. I. XII. Nature of the Roman Gods I. XII. Priests 15. -Sors- from -serere-, to place in row.
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