Note 225 — Chapter VI · THE KING.
Reading edition
It is a curious fact that Pontifex, literally the bridge-maker, should be the generic Latin name for a priest. At Athens there was a gens of γεφυραίοι: were these ever a sacerdotal tribe?
Reading edition
It is a curious fact that Pontifex, literally the bridge-maker, should be the generic Latin name for a priest. At Athens there was a gens of γεφυραίοι: were these ever a sacerdotal tribe?