Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Hierophanta

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

HIEROPHAN'TA and HIEROPHAN'TES (ἱεροφάντης). A high priest and teacher of religion amongst the Greeks and Egyptians, corresponding in many respects to the Roman Pontifex Maximus. Nep. Pel. 3. Tertull. adv. Marc. i. 13.