Saint Dominic High School - Stella Maris Yearbook (Oyster Bay, NY)

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As we turn the pages of hrstory we see rn the early perlod of the glory that once belonged to Greece and Rome the growth of a culture so r1ch and splendrd that ll has not been equaled by any c1v1l1zat1on Thxs era saw the age of Thrnkers Our knowledge of the untverse of ph1losophy archntecture and medt cme stems from tts scholars The three wrse men Socrates Plato and Arrstotle are rmmortal for therr playwrtghts as well from th1s era w1ll long occupy a hrgh pedestal rn the ltterary world These pages of hrstory are resplendent wrth the oratory of Clcero and Demosthenes the leadershlp of Alexander the Great and of Caesar and the mformatlve narratwes of V1rg1l and of Homer Nerther txme nor space permnts the mentlon of the vast lmmortals of the Golden era Undoubtedly these men are mdtcatrve of the countless treasures and tradrtlons bequeathed to EN LD af ACF E Ggsuocs QOME mankmd In IhlS epoch man s v1tal1ty of mmd was equalled only by h1s vrgor of body From the Crrcus Maxlmus to the Olymprc games at Greece we have evldence of the sports mmded Grecrans and Romans and of how vltal a vlgorous body was to them Strength of body was thetr strength of justxce as the democracy of the Greek cnty states opposed the evrl practxce of slavery cratrc laws and practrces however speak loudly m tts behalf Perhaps the most outstandmg example were the Justmtan Code the Twelve Tables and the Age of Pertcles whrch marked the height of Athenran Democracy These are the mteresttng facts about the magmfr cence of an age that once belonged to Greece and Rome The record achleved was a mrlestone along man s stony road to the present , . , . ' 9 . , l . , . . .- . . u . i, , . reason and philosophy. The works of many poets and and persecution practices, under the Romans. Its demo- n n I , , u . . n q . . n , - . 7 I l ! u u n , u u . n n

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A466 4' o Q Latl n 1' vttgkcv new agglllfff' Here we lmre our Latin I stmleutx taking a speed test lo improve their .vwiftness witlaout saerifcizzg accuracy. Though the charioteers and their magnificent horses of Rome and Greece's Golden Age have passed away, the true splendor and beauty of the Latin language is still with us today. With the help of our books, The View From Pompefs Head, Rome and Her People, we can see the all-mighty Caesar in his royal box at the Circus Maximus and hear the salutations of the brave gladiators Nos morturari te salutamusf' Latin is all around us, in our medicine and in law. Many of our laws are based upon what the Romans said hundreds of years ago Another instance is our language Sixty per cent of it comes from the Latin Words like regal from regina liberal from liber, hortatory from hortor, sequence from sequor, magistrate from magister and mother from mater are good examples. Rome ruled the then known world for a long, long time. Her culture was the greatest and most civilized. In her peristyles, baths, her luxurious gardens, her homes with their atriums, murals and tiled floors, her roads like Via Appia, her buildings like the Forum, Pala- tine and Circus Maximus, we can see the greatness of the Latin mind and culture. Although Rome lost her empire, she preserved her beautiful culture throughout the ages. She still lives on in the laws, words and practices of today. tbzs Latm II class. The art that Latin mottos are stzll m ezer da use is illustrated b J' J J