HODIE: ante diem septimum 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. This is another one of Owen's elegant little epigrams, with a word list at NoDictionaries.com.
Mille modis morimur mortales, nascimur uno.English: "We mortals die in a thousand ways; we are born in one way. People have a thousand illnesses, but one well-being." What a fun little poem to read out loud! :-)
Sunt hominum morbi || mille, sed una salus.
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 contains a quote famously attributed to Caesar about his divorce from his wife in the wake of the Bona Dea scandal: Quod quum incredibile uideretur, accusator quaesiuit ex eo, cur ergo uxorem dimisisset. Tum Caesar respondit: Quia suam uxorem etiam suspicione uacare uellet.
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 which I really liked: Alios effugere saepe, te numquam potes (English: You can often escape others, but you can never escape yourself).
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 Ut flatus venti, sic transit gloria mundi (English: Like a puff of wind, so passes the glory of the world). To read a brief essay about this proverb and to listen to the audio, visit the Latin Via Proverbs blog.
Rhyming Proverbs: Today's proverb in Leonine verse form is: Non est ad astra mollis e terris via (English: The way from the earth to the stars is not easy - the rhyme here is not as strong (astra-via), but the sentiment is a good one!).
Proverbs of Polydorus: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Iacta est alea (English: The die is cast - an even more famous quote from Julius Caesar).
Proverbium Perbreve of the Day: Today's two-word proverb is: Rore pascitur (English: He feeds on the dew... something a donkey should not attempt, as Aesop warns us!).
Proverbium Breve of the Day: Today's three-word proverb is: Fata viam invenient. (English: The Fates will find a way... so don't worry: even if you cannot find the way, your destiny will do that for you).
Vulgate Verse of the Day: Today's verse is Unus interitus est hominis et iumentorum (Ecc. 3:19). 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 Dormienti vulpi cadit intra os nihil (English: When the fox is sleeping, nothing falls into her mouth... in other words: if the fox wants to eat, she is going to have to work).
Proper Name Proverb of the Day: Today's proper name proverb is Mens non inest Centauris (English: Centaurs are crazy! - there is that wise Centaur Chiron, of course, but this proverb is about those crazy Centaurs in the battle with the Lapiths).
Greek Proverb of the Day: Today's proverb is Φιλῶν ἃ μὴ δεῖ, οὐ φιλήσεις ἃ δεῖ (English: When you love things you shouldn't, you will not love the things you should - a great little lesson in the Greek negatives μὴ and οὐ).
TODAY'S FABLES:
Fable of the Day: Today's fable of the day from Barlow is DE CATTO ET VULPE, the story of the single-minded cat and the fox with her notorious bag of tricks!
Ictibus Felicibus: Today's fable with macrons and accent marks is Rusticus et Aratrum Eius, the story of the farmer whose cart got stuck in the mud. Given the week that I have had, I definitely wanted to include this image in today's blog round-up: it's a very good depiction of how I was feeling on Friday, ha ha. :-)
