Editing College of Pontiffs (section)

==''Pontifex minor''==
The pontiffs were assisted by pontifical clerks or scribes ''([[scriba (ancient Rome)|scribae]])'', a position known in the earlier Republican period as a ''scriba pontificius'' but by the [[Augustus|Augustan]] period as a ''pontifex minor''.<ref>[[Livy]] 22.57; [[Jörg Rüpke]], ''The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine: Time, History, and the Fasti'' (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), p. 24.</ref> A ''pontifex minor'' assisted at the rite ''([[Glossary of ancient Roman religion#res divina|res divina]])'' for [[Juno (mythology)|Juno]] performed each [[Kalends]], the first day of the month. He took up a position in the [[Curia Calabra]], a sacred precinct ''([[Glossary of ancient Roman religion#templum|templum]])'' on the [[Capitoline Hill]], to observe the [[new moon]].<ref>Lawrence Richardson, ''A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome'' ([[Johns Hopkins University Press]], 1992), p. 102.</ref>