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Augustus as Pontifex Maximus: head covered (capite velato), wearing a cinched toga (cinctus Gabinus or toga ritu Gabino) and calcei patricii (shoes reserved for Patricians), he extends his right arm to pour a libation; a cupsa (container for official documents) lies at his feet. Greek marble (arms and head) and Italic marble (body).

The pontifex maximus was not a real magistrate: he did not serve for a fixed period but for life, and he remained, officially, a citizen. As the title suggests, the pontifex maximus was 'the greatest' or chairman of the college of the pontifices, 'priests'. They were responsible for the Roman state cult as a whole and for several cults in particular, viz. the cults that had no priestly college of their own (such as the augures, the decemviri sacris faciundis and the fetiales).
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