HODIE: ante diem quintum decimum Kalendas Octobres. 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 POEM: Here is today's little poem, from the Poetry Widget. It's from one of Horace's verse epistles written in dactylic hexameters; you can find a word list at NoDictionaries.com. I've marked a couple of the long marks that could be helpful in scanning:
Quem res plus nimio delectavēre secundae,In English: "When favorable events have delighted someone overmuch, they will shake him when changed." Here's a webpage with the complete Latin text of the poem with an English translation.
mutātae quatient. [...]
TODAY'S TWITTER:
Vita Caesaris: You can see my IVLIVS CAESAR feed with a sentence from Plutarch's Life of Caesar each day in Greek, Latin and English. Today's Latin portion tells how Clodius was driven out of the house: isque inuentus est in conclaui ancillae, quae eum domum adduxerat, quo confugerat, agnitusque a mulieribus domo eiicitur.
Proverbiis Pipilo: You can see my Proverbia feed of Latin proverbs which I "tweet" while I am online each day (in English, too). Here's one from today for all of us poor scholars! Doctrinam magis quam aurum eligite (English: Choose learning rather than gold).
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.
Audio Latin Proverb of the Day: Today's audio Latin proverb is Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi. (English: What is permitted to Jove is not permitted to an ox). To read a brief essay about this proverb and to listen to the audio, visit the Latin Via Proverbs blog.
Proverbs of Polydorus: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Delatores qui non castigat, irritat (English: He who does not rebuke informers, incites them - a line from Suetonius's Life of Domitian).
Proverbium Perbreve of the Day: Today's two-word proverb is: Actum agis (English: You're doing something that's been done... which is to say: you're wasting your time).
Proverbium Breve of the Day: Today's three-word proverb is: Lapides excavant aquae (English: Waters wear away stones... a great natural paradox - with all kinds of metaphorical applications, too!).
Vulgate Verse of the Day: Today's verse is Nonne duodecim horae sunt diei? (John 11:9). 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 Est et formicae et culici sua bilis (English: Even the ant and the gnat have their bile - which is to say, they have a temper, too - in the ancient theory of the humors, having bile, Greek "choler," could make you choleric, or melancholic!).
Proper Name Proverb of the Day: Today's proper name proverb is Antiquior Codro (English: Older than Codrus - which is not say that Codrus was notably old, but that he lived a very long time ago, being the last of Athen's legendary kings; you can read about him here at Wikipedia).
Greek Proverb of the Day: Today's proverb is Ἐγὼ δὲ καὶ σὺ ταυτὸν ἕλκομεν ζυγόν (English: You and I do not pull the same yoke).
TODAY'S FABLES:
Ictibus Felicibus: Today's fable with macrons and accent marks is Lupus et Sus, the story of a mama pig and a suspiciously friendly wolf.
Fable of the Day: Today's fable of the day from Barlow is De Vulpe in Puteo, the story of the fox who was stuck at the bottom of a well.
Tar Heel Readers: Materials continue to accumulate at Tar Heel Reader (keep up with the latest items at the Libelli Latini blog). Today I decided to feature Aeneas ad inferos, the story of Aeneas's journey to the underworld, another contribution from Magistra Holt!
