HODIE: ante diem quintum Idus Maias, another one of the days of the Lemuria festival 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 79, which features this wonderful advice for perfections: Etiam prudentissimus peccat (Even the most careful person can make a mistake).
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 about families: Ut pater, ita filius; ut mater, ita filia (English: Like father, like son; like mother, like daughter).
Audio Latin Proverb of the Day: Today's audio Latin proverb is Felix alterius cui sunt documenta flagella (English: Happy is the man for whom another man's lashings are a lesson). 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 Cedamus amori (English: Let us yield to love - a phrase from one of Vergil's Eclogues).
Proverbium Breve of the Day: Today's three-word proverb is Amicus amicum adiuvat (English: Friend helps friend - or, as we might say in English: One friend helps another).
Vulgate Verse of the Day: Today's verse is Amicus fidelis protectio fortis (Sirach 6:14). 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 Fugiens ursum, incidi in leonem (English: Fleeing a bear, I ran into a lion - an animal version of "out of the frying pan, into the fire").
Proper Name Proverb of the Day: Today's proper name proverb is Dives eram dudum, me fecerunt tria nudum: alea, vina, Venus (English: Formerly I was rich; three things have stripped me bare: dice, wine, and Venus - with the name of the goddess standing in for love; notice also the nice rhyme, dudum-nudum).
Greek Proverb of the Day: Today's proverb is Ξύλον ἀγκύλον οὐδέποτ' ὀρθόν (English: A crooked tree will never be straight). 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 RUSTICO ET SILVA (the story of the man who asked the trees to give him wood for an axe-handle). 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 Vulpe et Hirco, the story of a fox and a goat who got stuck in a well.
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 Equō et Asellō Onustō , the story of the horse who refused to help the donkey carry his load.
