HODIE: pridie Idus Maias (and yes, you can have your own Roman Google Calendar).
VERBUM HODIERNUM: Today's word is SIC - read a brief essay about the word at the Verbosum blog. Here's one of the sayings you can find in the essay: Sicut fecisti, fiet tibi, "As you have done, so it will be done to you."
BESTIARIA PROVERBS: There are some new animal proverbs today for PASSER, the sparrow, and VOLUCRES, birds. Here's a nice one: Ostendit nidus volucrem, quae fecerit ipsum, "The nest reveals which bird made it."
ANECDOTE OF THE DAY: Today's anecdote is Alexander at Canis Indus , a story about Alexander and the dogs he saw in India.
FABULAE FACILES: The new easy-to-read fable is Equus, Lupus, et Hordeum, a story about a horse and a hypocritical wolf.
MILLE FABULAE: FABLE OF THE DAY: The fable for today is Vulpecula et Tintinnabulum, the story of a fox who is fooled by the sound of a bell. (You can also a free PDF copy of the Mille Fabulae et Una book.)
MILLE FABULAE: ILLUSTRATIONS: The latest fables with images are Canis, Herus, et Cibus, a fable about a dog and his stingy master, and Draco Beneficii Memor, a story about a good-hearted dragon.
GOOGLE BOOKS: Today's Google Books are Allen & Fowler's Selections from Ovid and Goffaux's Robinson Crusoëus (a Latin translation of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe).
DISTICHA: Today's little poems are Ad veniam curras, ad vindictam pigriteris; / Ad pacem properes, ad iurgia non gradieris. (from Wegeler) and Plus vigila semper nec somno deditus esto; / Nam diuturna quies vitiis alimenta ministrat. (from Cato's distichs).
TODAY'S MOTTOES & PROVERBS: Widgets available at Schoolhouse Widgets.
Tiny Mottoes: Today's tiny motto is: Veritas vincit (English: Truth triumphs).
3-Word Proverbs Verb-less: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is Deo nihil impossibile (English: For God, nothing is impossible)
Audio Latin Proverb: Today's audio Latin proverb is Felix alterius cui sunt documenta flagella (English: Happy is the man for whom another man's lashings are a lesson). 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: Contra hostem aut fortem oportet esse aut supplicem (English: Against your enemy you must be either bold or humble).
Animal Proverb from Erasmus: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is Locrensis bos (English: A Locrian ox; from Adagia 2.8.62 - this refers to a cheap substitution: when the gods expected a sacrificial ox, the Locrians made a tiny ox of wood and sacrificed that instead).
For an image today, here is Robinson Crusoe, a.k.a. Robinson Crusoëus:
Here's the book at Google Books:
