Where was Pontius born?

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If it is Pontius Pilate, there's Pilate the Spaniard, born in Seville, a flashy, garlic-crunching character who couldn't wait to get to Rome; not surprisingly, the Spanish disown him. Then there's the German or Alpine Pilate in Caxton's ecclesiastical compilation, 'The Golden Legend,' who became popular in the Middle Ages and spread through Northern Europe like the plague; this Pilate adapted local costumes and customs wherever he went -- the Lucerne Pilate is a margrave in fancy dress, the York Pilate is a pompous magistrate and so on -- in plays and tales steeped in Christianity and native bigotry. (The Oberammergau Passion Play comes to mind.) Hollywood and Cinema Pilates have usually been effete if not bitchy or fey. But the likeliest Pilate came of noble stock, the Pontii of Samnium, a mountainous region near Rome; he was enough of a city boy to conceal his country roots and play up to men of position. Minor army commissions and provincial postings depended on patronage, and the infamous Sejanus, commander of the Praetorian Guard and right-hand man to the emperor Tiberius, became his mentor. Oct 05 01, 4:10 AM

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