In Rome he entered into a contest against Catulus, the leading man among the Romans, for the office of Pontifex Maximus, 1 and, as he was accompanied to the door by his mother, he said, ‘To-day, mother, you shall have as your son a Pontifex Maximus or an exile.’ 2
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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