Legacy
During the Second Samnite War, the Romans adopted the manipular system of military organization, which the Pontius and the Samnites used throughout the conflict.
Gaius Pontius may be an ancestor of Pontius Pilate, the Roman Prefect of the province of Judaea and judge at the trial of Jesus, thus being the ancestor of the Gens Pontia, who also gave Roman consuls Marcus Pontius Sabinus, Marcus Pontius Laelianus and ... Pontius Proculus Pontianus.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
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