[Goober5000]

Sathanes is correct in modern Greek.  Sathanai is correct in ancient Greek.  Sathanases is correct in modern English.  The only form that isn't correct is Sathani.

So basically, do whatever you want.

[Mobius]

I agree with you in considering Sathani a wrong form, but Sathanes isn't that different. As I said, it's like using an Italian word instead of a Latin one.

[Admiral Nelson]

True.

You may find it interesting to note that until recently, Latin was taught to be pronounced using English vowel sounds.  I will post a poem below illustrating this pronunciation, mostly because it will annoy Mobius.

    What is it that roareth thus?
    Can it be a Motor Bus?
    Yes, the smell and hideous hum
    Indicat Motorem Bum!
    Implet in the Corn and High
    Terror me Motoris Bi:
    Bo Motori clamitabo
    Ne Motore caedar a Bo —
    "Dative be or Ablative
    So thou only let us live:
    Whither shall thy victims flee?
    Spare us, spare us, Motor Be!"
    Thus I sang; and still anigh
    Came in hordes Motores Bi,
    Et complebat omne forum
    Copia Motorum Borum.
    How shall wretched lives like us
    Cincti Bis Motoribus?
    Domine, defende nos
    Contra hos Motores Bos!

        A. D. Godley

[Mobius]

In omni Gallia eorum hominum, qui aliquo sunt numero atque honore, genera sunt duo. Nam plebes paene servorum habetur loco, quae nihil audet per se, nullo adhibetur consilio. Plerique, cum aut aere alieno aut magnitudine tributorum aut iniuria potentiorum premuntur, sese in servitutem dicant nobilibus: in hos eadem omnia sunt iura, quae dominis in servos. Sed de his duobus generibus alterum est druidum, alterum equitum. Illi rebus divinis intersunt, sacrificia publica ac privata procurant, religiones interpretantur: ad hos magnus adulescentium numerus disciplinae causa concurrit, magnoque hi sunt apud eos honore. Nam fere de omnibus controversiis publicis privatisque constituunt, et, si quod est admissum facinus, si caedes facta, si de hereditate, de finibus controversia est, idem decernunt, praemia poenasque constituunt; si qui aut privatus aut populus eorum decreto non stetit, sacrificiis interdi****. Haec poena apud eos est gravissima. Quibus ita est interdictum, hi numero impiorum ac sceleratorum habentur, his omnes decedunt, aditum sermonemque defugiunt, ne quid ex contagione incommodi accipiant, neque his petentibus ius redditur neque honos ullus communicatur. His autem omnibus druidibus praeest unus, qui summam inter eos habet auctoritatem. Hoc mortuo aut si qui ex reliquis excellit dignitate succedit, aut, si sunt plures pares, suffragio druidum, nonnumquam etiam armis de principatu contendunt. Hi certo anni tempore in finibus Carnutum, quae regio totius Galliae media habetur, considunt in loco consecrato. Huc omnes undique, qui controversias habent, conveniunt eorumque decretis iudiciisque parent. Disciplina in Britannia reperta atque inde in Galliam translata esse existimatur, et nunc, qui diligentius eam rem cognoscere volunt, plerumque illo discendi causa proficis****ur.

Ah, right... c-u-n-t is censored

[Snail]

I'm not even going to ask.

[Mobius]

Read the last part, one one about the British...

[TrashMan]

Something about roman conquering of Brettania?

[Snail]

I'm not even going to TRY translating that rubbish....

[Mobius]

Bretta what?

No, something about French-British relations.

[Admiral Nelson]

It is an excerpt from Caesar that says that people travel from Gaul to Britain to study Druidism.  I am not sure why this is relevant.

[karajorma]

Enough! I think we now know the answer.