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I've got a new project going, as you'll see below: Disticha Latina, a collection of two-line poems in Latin, with a Latin-English vocabulary list for each one. I'm posting in there every day now, so I'll have two little poems for each round-up; see below.
HODIE: ante diem tertium Idus Apriles (and yes, you can have your own Roman Google Calendar).
VERBUM HODIERNUM: Today's word is NULLUS - read a brief essay about the word at the Verbosum blog. Here's one of the sayings you can find in the essay: Nullus dies omnino malus, "No day is altogether bad."
BESTIARIA PROVERBS: There are some new animal proverbs today for HIRCUS, the billy-goat, and MUS, the mouse. Here's a nice one about mice: Qui cum felibus venatur mures capiet, "He who hunts with cats will catch mice."
ANECDOTE OF THE DAY: Today's anecdote is Sacerdos Callidus, a funny little story about a sacrifice at the temple of Diana in Rome.
FABULAE FACILES: The new easy-to-read fable is Graculus et Avarus, a wonderful little story about a greedy man and a thieving jackdaw.
MILLE FABULAE: FABLE OF THE DAY: The fable for today is Cancer et Filius Eius, a story of "do as I say, not as I do." (You can also a free PDF copy of the Mille Fabulae et Una book.)
MILLE FABULAE: ILLUSTRATIONS: The latest fables with images are Scarabaeus et Fur, an outrageous little story about a man who got a beetle in his butt, and Formica Alata, the story of what happened to the ant who wanted wings.
GOOGLE BOOKS: Today's Google Books are Adams' Lectiones Selectae and Sanford & Scott's A Junior Latin Reader .
DISTICHA: Today's little poems are Taurus, Olor, Satyrusque ob amorem, et Iupiter Aurum est / Europes, Ledes, Antiopes, Danaes (source) and O dives, dives! non omni tempore vives! / Fac bene, dum vivis, post mortem vivere si vis (source).
TODAY'S MOTTOES & PROVERBS: Widgets available at Schoolhouse Widgets.
Tiny Proverbs: Today's tiny proverb is: Occasio premenda (English: Opportunity should be pursued).
3-Word Mottoes Verb-less: Today's 3-word verb-less motto is Multum, non multa (English: Much, not many - in other words: focus! don't multitask!).
Latin Animal Proverb: Today's animal proverb is Si cantes asino, crepitus tibi reddet ab ano (English: If you sing to a donkey, he'll return you a fart from his rump).
Proverbs of Polydorus: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Vivorum memento (English: Remember the living).
Proper Name Proverb from Erasmus: Today's proper name proverb from Erasmus is Expertes invidentiae Musarum fores (English: Let the doors of the Muses be free from envy; from Adagia 1.2.85 - note the word expers here, which means "having no part in").
Greek Proverb of the Day: Today's proverb is Ἀνδρὸς μείζονος μὴ κοινώνει (English: Don't get involved with a person more powerful than yourself).
For an image today, here is a mosaic that depicts Jupiter as a satyr with Antiope, as in one of today's little poems: Taurus, Olor, Satyrusque ob amorem, et Iupiter Aurum est / Europes, Ledes, Antiopes, Danaes (source).
