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Pontius
Pontĭus, i, m., the name of a gens, originally Samnite, afterwards Roman. So, I C. Pontius, a lea...
A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
A pawnbroker. Pontius Pilate's guards, the first regiment of foot, or Royal Scots: so intitled from their supposed great antiquity. Pontius Pilate's counsellor; one who like him can say, Non invenio causam, I can find no cause. Also (Cambridge) a Mr. Shepherd of Trinity College; who disputing with a brother parson on the comparative rapidity with which they read the liturgy, offered to give him as far as Pontius Pilate in the Belief.
Pontĭus, i, m., the name of a gens, originally Samnite, afterwards Roman. So, I C. Pontius, a lea...
A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.