HODIE: Kalendae 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. Today's poem is a bit of Horace from his dactylic poetry, with a word list at NoDictionaries.com:
Inter spem curamque, timores inter et irasEnglish: "In the midst of hope and worry, of fear and anger, believe that every day that has dawned is your last; welcome will come the hour unhoped for." You can see some parallel passages from Horace collected at Michael Gilleland's marvelous Laudator Temporis Acti blog.
omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum;
grata superveniet quae non sperabitur hora.
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 continues the description of Cassus: Crasso apud creditores, qui maxime instabant, octingenta triginta talenta intercedente, in prouinciam suam abiit.
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: Male vivunt, qui se semper victuros putant (English: People who think they are going to live forever do a bad job of living).
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 Echinus partum differt (English: The hedgehog postpones its giving birth). To read a brief essay about this proverb and to listen to the audio, visit the Latin Via Proverbs blog.
Maxims of Publilius Syrus: Today's proverb from Publilius Syrus is: Fidem qui perdit, quo se servet reliquo? (English: If you lose faith, what do you have left that can save you).
Rhyming Proverbs: Today's proverb in Leonine verse form is: Esto laborator et erit Deus auxiliator (English: You be the worker, and God will your helper).
Proverbs of Polydorus: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Beati pauperes spiritu (English: Blessed are the poor in spirit).
Proverbium Perbreve of the Day: Today's two-word proverb is: Pingui Minerva (English: With a fat Minerva - which is to say, with a thick-headed, slow-witted intelligence, with Minerva=Athena as the personification of wisdom).
Proverbium Breve of the Day: Today's three-word proverb is: Sapiens dominabitur astris (English: The wise man will rule over the stars).
Vulgate Verse of the Day: Today's verse is Ubi non est scientia animae, non est bonum (Proverbs 19:2). 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 Graculus graculo assidet (English: One daw sits next to another - in other words, birds of a feather flock together).
Greek Proverb of the Day: Today's proverb is Γέρων πίθηκος οὐχ' ἁλίσκεται πάγῃ (English: An old monkey is not caught in a snare).
TODAY'S FABLES:
Ictibus Felicibus: Today's fable with macrons and accent marks is Pars Montium, the story of the mountain that gave birth to a mouse.
Fable of the Day: Today's fable of the day from Barlow is DE RANA ET VULPE, the story of the frog who thought she was a physician.
Proper Name Proverb of the Day: Today's proper name proverb is Crasso nummatior (English: Richer than Crassus.) Crassus's wealth was very great indeed, as you can read in Caesar's biographical 'tweet' for today, supra. Since Crassus came up twice today, I thought it would be good to include an image of a bust of that most wealthy Roman - whose net worth Forbes estimates at what would be $170 billion today.
