HODIE: ante diem quartum Kalendas Maias. 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 67, which features this saying about the shoemaker needing to stick to his last: Ne supra crepidam sutor. (Don't let the shoemaker go beyond his sandal sole - in other words, he should stick to the trade he knows!).
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 great anti-imperial slogan: Est pax villana melior quam pugna Romana (English: A village peace is better than a Roman war).
Audio Latin Proverb of the Day: Today's audio Latin proverb is Elephantus culicem non curat (English: An elephant doesn't worry about a gnat). 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 Mundus transit (English: The world passes away...The full phrase in I John is Et mundus transit, et concupiscentia eius).
Proverbium Breve of the Day: Today's three-word proverb is Ex alieno prodigus (English: Lavish with someone else's stuff - and of course it's easy to be generous when your hand is in someone else's purse!).
Vulgate Verse of the Day: Today's verse is Diligite inimicos vestros (Matt. 5:44). 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 A bove maiori discit arare minor (English: The lesser ox learns to plow from the greater - but you will also frequently find this typographical error repeated over and over on the Internet: Ab ove maiori discit arare minor... as if sheep could learn to pull the plough!).
Proper Name Proverb of the Day: Today's proper name proverb is Aurora Musis amica est (English: The dawn is a friend to the Muses - good advice for any aspiring novelists out there: rise early and seek your Muses by the dawn's light!).
Greek Proverb of the Day: Today's proverb is Πηγάσου ταχύτερος (English: Swifter than Pegasus - Pegasus being the great winged horse of Greek mythology). 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. So, today's fable with macrons is Dē Lupō Ovis Pelle Indūtō , the story of the wolf who dressed in sheep's clothing... and paid a terrible price for it in the end.
Fable of the Day: Today's fable of the day from Barlow's Aesop is DE RANA ET VULPE (the story of the frog who wanted to be a doctor). 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 Camelus, the story of the camel who asked Zeus for a pair of horns. Here's an illustration for the fable from an edition of Aesop's fables published in 1479 (image source):
Aesop's Fables in Latin now available at Amazon.com.
