pontes
- plural of pons.
Example Sentences
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Where this great road crosses streams and might reasonably be lost, at its pontes, its bridges, it has remained, and is of such importance as to have given a name to a whole countryside--Ponthieu.
From First and Last by Belloc, Hilaire
After passing through the pontes they received the voting tablets at the entrance of the septa.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Stewart, Aubrey
This is now a sacred island, lying by the city, adorned with temples of the gods, and walks, and is called in the Latin tongue inter duos pontes.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh
