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The following names of persons who held the role of Pontifex Maximus in Ancient Rome during the Republican period are known. Searches through the histories of Livy, Polybius, Tacitus, Appian, Cassius Dio, etc might yield more names or complete dates. Incomplete list of Pontifices maximi: - 753 BC to 712 BC - Duties and power of office held by the Kings of Rome
- 712 BC - Numa Marcius
- ...
- 509 BC - Papirius
- ...
- 449 BC - Furius
- 431 BC - Cornelius Cossus
- 420 BC - Minucius
- 390 BC - Follius Flaccinator
- ...
- 332 BC - Cornelius Callissa
- 304 BC - Cornelius Scipio Barbatus, possibly Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus later consul in 298 and censor 280 BC.
- ...
- 254 BC - Tiberius Coruncanius, first plebeian to hold the office
- 243 BC - Lucius Caecilius Metellus (died 221 BC)
- 237 BC - Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus
- 212 BC - Publius Licinius Crassus Dives (consul 205 BC)
- 183 BC - Gaius Servilius Geminus
- 180 BC - Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (consul 187 BC)
- 152 BC - Vacant
- 150 BC - Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica; succeeded by his son
- 141 BC - Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio, the first Pontifex to leave Italy, when ordered to Asia Minor by the Senate, after he had instigated the death of his cousin Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus in a riot.
- 132 BC - Publius Licinius Crassus Mucianus the first Pontifex to leave Italy willingly and to lead an army into foreign soil; killed in battle in Asia Minor. Succeeded by his brother:
- 130 BC - Publius Mucius Scaevola (d. 130 BC??)
- 115 BC - Lucius Caecilius Metellus Dalmaticus, possibly descendant of the pontiff of 243 BC.
- 103 BC - Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 96 BC)
- 89 BC - Quintus Mucius Scaevola Pontifex, son and nephew of two Pontifexes Maximi
- 81 BC - Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius nephew of the pontiff of 115 BC, and third and last of this family to hold the role.
- 63 BC - Julius Caesar
- 44 BC - Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (triumvir); the last Roman Republican holder of the role; lineal descendant of the pontiff of 180 BC.
- 12 BC - Augustus, adoptive son of the pontiff of 63 BC; subsequently held by the Emperors
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