How to pronounce “vestal” in English

- Yeah. And this goes all the way back to, you know, the Roman Empire where, you know, think of, for example, the Emperor Augustus. When he was writing his will, he put it inthe Temple of the Vestal Virgins as well as Mark Antony and Cleopatra. They'd all done that because there's this additional protection of religion-... and this taboo against violating that. And the same thing happened when Europe was Christianized. Monasteries were... I mean, rich people,