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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At any rate the pontiffs of that region, Etruria, were not exerting strong pressure.
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He is the 131st pontiff in a line dating back to the fourth century.
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Such an arrangement could only work if the pontiff and his people remained in absolute accord.
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The Romans had an old tradition of chronicling which was kept in the hands of aristocratic pontiffs.