HODIE: ante diem tertium decimum Kalendas Ianuarias, as the Festival of Saturnalia continues (and yes, you can have your own Roman Google Calendar).
HOLIDAY SONGS: The Latin holiday songs for today are: Lapsi Caelo Super Gentes, a Latin version of "Angels We Have Heard on High," along with Jesu, dulcis memoria and also Laetissimam famam, a Latin version of the Polish carol, "Wesołą nowinę."
VERBUM HODIERNUM: Today's word is SIGNUM - read a brief essay about the word at the Verbosum blog. Here's one of the sayings you can find in the essay: Signum scientis est posse docere, "A sign of those who know is that they can teach" (a nice motto for us teachers!)
FABULAE FACILES: The new easy-to-read fable is Asinus et Viatores Duo, an extremely simple story but none the less funny for it!
BESTIARIA PROVERBS: There are some new animal proverbs today for FELES, the cat, and URSUS, the bear.
MILLE FABULAE: FABLE OF THE DAY: The fable for today is Corvus Asinum Feriens, the story of a wicked crow observed by a wolf. (You can also a free PDF copy of the Mille Fabulae et Una book - and there's an English fable of the day, too.)
AESOP SLIDESHOW: Today's Aesop slideshows are Delphinus et Simius, the famous story of the monkey who pretends to be a man, and Camelus et Simia, a story in which it is not the monkey but the camel who behaves foolishly. (For all the Aesop images, visit Flickr.)
GOOGLE BOOKS: Today's Google Books are Bovillus's Proverbia Vulgares and Boothby's two volumes of Aesopic verse.
TODAY'S MOTTOES & PROVERBS: Widgets available at SchoolhouseWidgets.com.
Tiny Proverbs: Today's tiny proverb is: Hylam vocat (English: You're shouting for Hylas - but as we know from the myth of Hercules and Hylas, he cannot ever answer your call since the nymphs have taken him!).
3-Word Mottoes Verb-less: Today's 3-word verb-less motto is Citius, altius, fortius (English: Faster, higher, and stronger - famous as the motto of the Olympics).
Latin Animal Proverb: Today's animal proverb is Pullus de nido avolat (English: The chick flies away from the nest).
Proverbs of Polydorus: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Nolite iudicare secundum faciem (English: Don't judge based on appearances).
Proper Name Proverb from Erasmus: Today's proper name proverb from Erasmus is Sero sapiunt Phryges (English: The Phrygians get wise too late - the Phrygians here are the Trojans, who let the wooden horse into their city and didn't realize their mistake until it was too late; from Adagia 1.1.28).
Greek Proverb of the Day: Today's proverb is Λύκος ποιμήν (English: The wolf as shepherd... which is to say, not a very good shepherd at all).
For an image today, in honor of the proverb Hylam vocat, here's the famous painting of Hylas and the Nymphs by John William Waterhouse:
