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Yes, this is the fresco in question. At the center top is St. Augustine. At his right hand is the original ΙΧΘΥΣ symbol--a wheel of eight spokes made by combining the 5 letters together (but with a Lunate Sigma--C instead of Σ). This design evidently predates the fish symbol, and it has been argued that the resulting circle was so made because it looks like bread. At his left hand is a representation of the 10 celestial spheres, and below it the philosophers Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. Epicu…

Regarding pronunciation, what you'll hear is that Latin had a very regular phonology. Each letter makes one sound. The C is a K sound, never an S sound--G is always hard as in 'got', never like J as in 'gentle'. I don't know if that's true, and it's slightly beside the point anyway. There are a series of long-standing conventions regarding the English pronunciation of Latin names and words, and even these conventions vary between English speaking countries. And some of them are outdated but not …

m.youtube.com/watch?v=4z9pNgTGQSY Now for a calculated move to draw Don into the conversation...

This was brought home to me at work today when a young women from Ecuador who has asked me to help her with her English pronunciation told me that she struggles with words like prepared because the "erred" sound we make at the end has us "swallowing our tongues".

Tertullian, anticipating the varied pleasures of Judgment Day; (Quote)

Julian the Apostate, his condemnation of Epicureans and Pyrrhonists; (Quote)