HODIE: ante diem duodevicesimum Kalendas Februarias (and yes, you can have your own Roman Google Calendar).
VERBUM HODIERNUM: Today's word is PUBLICUS - read a brief essay about the word at the Verbosum blog. Here's one of the sayings you can find in the essay: Salus publica, salus mea, "Public well-being is my well-being" (the advocates for health care reform in this country could make that their motto!).
BESTIARIA PROVERBS: There are some new animal proverbs today for TIGRIS, the tiger, and CICADA , the cicada, or grasshopper.
FABULAE FACILES: The new easy-to-read fable is Testudo et Iuppiter, the story of how the turtle got her shell.
MILLE FABULAE: FABLE OF THE DAY: The fable for today is Citharoedus Imperitus., the story of a self-satisfied musician. (You can also a free PDF copy of the Mille Fabulae et Una book.)
MILLE FABULAE: ILLUSTRATIONS: The latest fables with images are Hircus Equitans, the story of a goat who was the slave of a donkey, and Hircus et Statua Ahenea, the story of a goat who put too much trust in his horns.
ENGLISH AESOP: The latest new fables are The Two Bald Pates and Prince the Piper. (Plus, there's an English "fable of the day" each day, too.)
GOOGLE BOOKS: Today's Google Book isGatty's The Book of Sun-Dials , which contains a marvelous collection of Latin mottoes and sayings about time!
ROMAN HISTORY: I'm making my way now through Mommsen's History of Rome, having reached the Roman Republican period.
TODAY'S MOTTOES & PROVERBS: Widgets available at SchoolhouseWidgets.com.
3-Word Mottoes: Today's 3-word motto is Fugit hora, ora (English: Time is flying: pray).
3-Word Proverbs: Today's 3-word proverb is Cura facit canos (English: Worry makes grey hairs).
Rhyming Proverbs: Today's proverb with rhyme is: Est iam potata, sed erat cerevisia grata (English: The beer has now been drunk, but it was very nice indeed).
Vulgate Verse: Today's verse is Qui amat divitias, fructus non capiet ex eis (Ecc. 5:10). For a translation, check out the polyglot Bible, in English, Hebrew, Latin and Greek, at the Sacred Texts Archive online.
Elizabethan Proverb Commentary: Here is today's proverb commentary, this time by Conybeare: Occasio premenda: A proverbe, when the sunne shineth, make haye. The tyde must be taken when it commeth.
For an image today, here's an example of a sun-dial with a Latin motto: Horas non numero, nisi serenas.
