College of Pontifices
group · 3 works · 4 mentions · 7 anchored passages
College of Pontiffs · Pontifex Maximus · Pontiffs · Pontifical College · a pontiff · chief pontiffs · pontiffs · the Pontifex Maximus · the Pontiffs
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
The Roman priestly college that held custody of the forms of legal procedure, knowledge of legal formularies, and the power of legal interpretation in the earliest period of Roman history.
[xviii] earliest times, by the King and the College of Pontifices.
The change from Monarchy to Republic could have made little difference in the manner in which the law was revealed to the Roman litigant, except in so far as this change may have increased the power of the College of Pontiffs.
in the varied methods by which crime or sin is punished, some offences being reserved wholly for the secular courts, others being visited by the judgments of the Pontifical College, others again being subject to the milder chastisement of the Censor before he performs the religious rite of Purification (Lustratio).
On the Nature of the Gods
The college of Roman priests responsible for religious law and ritual, whose authority Cotta invokes as superior to philosophical reasoning
But when it is a question of religion, I follow Tiberius Coruncanius, Publius Scipio, Publius Scaevola, the chief pontiffs, not Zeno or Cleanthes or Chrysippus;
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber
The chief Roman priestly office, cited as forbidden to remarry, a further secular testimony to the honor of monogamy.
For the fact that to the Pontifex Maximus himself it is not lawful to repeat marriage is surely a glory of monogamy.