HODIE: Kalendae Ianuariae, the Kalends of January (and yes, you can have your own Roman Google Calendar - I've updated it for the year 2011 now, too!).
VERBUM HODIERNUM: Today's word is ANNUS - a word in honor of the new year! Read a brief essay about the word at the Verbosum blog. Here's one of the sayings you can find in the essay: Eunt anni more fluentis aquae, "The years go by like flowing water."
FABULAE FACILES: The new easy-to-read fable is Aesopus et Arcus, a story with a great lesson about taking it easy... no matter how strict your New Year's Resolutions might be!
BESTIARIA PROVERBS: There are some new animal proverbs today for TALPA, the mole, and GRUS, the crane.
MILLE FABULAE: FABLE OF THE DAY: The fable for today is Boves et Trabs, the story of the oxen and the bossy log. (You can also a free PDF copy of the Mille Fabulae et Una book - and there's an English fable of the day, too.)
MILLE FABULAE: ILLUSTRATIONS: The latest fables with images are Milvus et Lampetra, the kite and the lamprey, and Prometheus et Satyrus, the story of the satyr who embraced the fire.
GOOGLE BOOKS: Today's Google Books are Kohler's Das Tierleben im Sprichwort der Griechen und Romer and Vaenius's Quinti Horatii Flacci Emblemata, an emblem book inspired by the poetry of Horace!
TODAY'S MOTTOES & PROVERBS: Widgets available at SchoolhouseWidgets.com.
Tiny Proverbs: Today's tiny proverb is: Salomone sapientior (English: Wiser than Solomon).
3-Word Mottoes Verb-less: Today's 3-word verb-less motto is In omnia promptus (English: Ready for everything).
Latin Animal Proverb: Today's animal proverb is Viscum fugiens, avis in laqueos incidit (English: Fleeing the snare, the bird falls into the net - a version of "out of the frying pan, into the fire," but with birds instead of fish).
Proverbs of Polydorus: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Gratis accepistis, gratis date (English: You have taken freely; give freely).
Proper Name Proverb from Erasmus: Today's proper name proverb from Erasmus is Simonidis cantilenae (English: The songs of Simonides; from Adagia 2.9.12 - This refers to the tradition that Simonides of Ceos was the poet who first perfected the craft of writing poetry for money, on commission).
Greek Proverb of the Day: Today's proverb is Νεκρὸς οὐ δάκνει (English: A dead man does not bite.).
For an image today, here is Janus, the god of "January," shown here in one of the Alciato emblems:
