HODIE: Idus Apriles, yes, it's the Ides of April. 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 52, which features this great saying about greed for money: Cupiditas pecuniarum omni tyranno gravior (Desire for money is more burdensome than any dictator).
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 a recent one with some lovely sound repetition in the Latin: Falsa est fiducia formae (English: Trusting in pretty appearances can be deceiving).
Audio Latin Proverb of the Day: Today's audio Latin proverb is Sol oculus mundi (English: The sun is the eye of the world, a nice image which comes from the medieval dialogue of Pippin and Albin). 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 Destinatus obdura (English: Having made up your mind, endure - a saying adapted from a poem of Catullus).
Proverbium Breve of the Day: Today's three-word proverb is Bona bonis contingunt (English: Good things happen to good people - ah, if only that were guaranteed in writing somewhere, eh?).
Vulgate Verse of the Day: Today's verse is Deus superbis resistit; humilibus autem dat gratiam (James 4:6). 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 Aquila petit solem (English: The eagle seeks the sun - a family motto that goes back to ancient beliefs about the eagle and the sun, as you can read in the Physiologus).
Proper Name Proverb of the Day: Today's proper name proverb is Post nubila Phoebus (English: After clouds, the sun - a lovely saying where Phoebus Apollo stands in for the sun).
Greek Proverb of the Day: Today's proverb is Ψωριῶσα κάμελος πολλῶν ὄνων ἀνατίθεται φορτία (English: The mangy camel can tote the loads of many donkeys - so don't dismiss that camel, no matter how mangy she looks). If you look at the Greek Proverb of the Day widget, you'll see it comes with a Latin translation, too.
TODAY'S FABLES:
Aesopus Ning: Fables with Macrons: By popular request, I'm marking up the fables from Barlow's Aesop with macrons (and anybody here on the LatinBestPractices list knows that I am doing this despite not being a fan of macrons, it's true...). So, today's fable with macrons is Fābula 9: Dē Vulpe et Pardō, the story of the debate about beauty between the fox and the leopard.
Fable of the Day: Today's fable of the day from Barlow's Aesop is DE DELPHINO ET SMARIDE (the story of a dolphin who is not nearly as nice in the other dolphin story today; see below). 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.
Florilegium Fabularum: I'm working my way, slowly but surely, through the amazing collection of fables by Irenaeus published in 1666. Today's fable is De Arione et Delphino, an unexpected item in a book of Aesop's fables - although it is a wonderful animal story with a moral that fits right into the Aesopic tradition. Here's an illustration for the fable by Bouguereau which shows Arion on a kind of sea-horse, rather than a dolphin:
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Aesop's Fables in Latin now available at Amazon.com.
