Ning Blog: I've posted something that might be of interest in my Ning blog: 17th-century Latin Prose Fables at GoogleBooks, a report on a truly amazing collection of fables from 1666 which I discovered this weekend at GoogleBooks.
HODIE: ante diem tertium Kalendas Apriles, which was the Festival of Salus in ancient Rome. You can add a Roman calendar as a widget in your blog or webpage, or display it as a Google Calendar: here's how.
TODAY'S PODCAST:
Heri Hodie Cras Podcast: Today's audio podcast is Latin Via Proverbs: Group 43, which features the motto of the school where I teach, the University of Oklahoma: Civi et rei publicae. (For the citizen and for the republic).
TODAY'S PROVERBS:
You can get access to all the proverb of the day scripts (also available as random proverb scripts) at the SchoolhouseWidgets.com website.
Proverbiis Pipilo: You can see my Twitter feed of Latin proverbs which I "tweet" while I am online each day (in English, too). Here's one from today: Bove leporem venatur (English: He's hunting a rabbit with an ox - in other words, using exactly the wrong tool for the task).
Audio Latin Proverb of the Day: Today's audio Latin proverb is Meum mihi, suum cuique carum (English: Mine is dear to me, to each person his own is dear to him). To read a brief essay about this proverb and to listen to the audio, visit the Latin Via Proverbs blog.
Proverbium Perbreve of the Day: Today's two-word proverb is Hinnulus leonem (English: The fawn - the lion... which doesn't say much in English, but in Latin the fawn is nominative, and the lion is accusative, so you can assume that this is a very foolish fawn indeed, who attacked or taunted or chased the lion - the verb is not important; all that matters is the disparity between the nominative and the accusative nouns).
Proverbium Breve of the Day: Today's three-word proverb is Fortiter, fideliter, feliciter (English: Bravely Truly Happily - a widely used Latin motto).
Vulgate Verse of the Day: Today's verse is Quasi a facie colubri, fuge peccata (Sirach 21:2). For a translation, check out the polyglot Bible, in English, Hebrew, Latin and Greek, at the Sacred Texts Archive online.
Latin Animal Proverb of the Day: Today's animal proverb is Lupus hiat (English: The wolf is gaping - an allusion to the Aesop's fable about the wolf cheated of his supper - whicn entirely by coincidence is also the Simplified Fable for today!).
Proper Name Proverb of the Day: Today's proper name proverb is Facilius est Nili caput invenire (English: It's easier than finding the source of the Nile... which is to say, not easy at all! ).
Greek Proverb of the Day: Today's proverb is Ἄχειρ νιφθῆναι βοῦλεται (English: The handless one wants to wash himself). If you look at the Greek Proverb of the Day widget, you'll see it comes with a Latin translation, too.
TODAY'S FABLES:
Fable of the Day: Today's fable of the day from Barlow's Aesop is DE LEONE ET URSO (the story of the lion and the bear and how they were bested by a fox). You can use the Javascript to include the fable of the day automatically each day on your webpage or blog - meanwhile, to find out more about today's fable, visit the Ning Resource Page for this fable, where you will find links to the text, commentary, and a discussion board for questions and comments.
Latin Via Fables: Simplified Fables: I'm now presenting the "Barlow Aesop" collection, fable by fable, in a SIMPLIFIED version (same story, but in simpler sentences) - with a SLIDESHOW presentation to go along with it, too. Today's Simplified fable is De Nutrice et Lupo, the story of the gaping wolf - whom you can see peeking in here through the window.
Aesop's Fables in Latin now available at Amazon.com.
