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HODIE: ante diem septimum decimum Kalendas Iunias (and yes, you can have your own Roman Google Calendar).
VERBUM HODIERNUM: Today's word is FERUS - read a brief essay about the word at the Verbosum blog. Here's one of the sayings you can find in the essay: Fera quaevis in sua silva superbit, "Every wild animal is proud in its own forest."
BESTIARIA PROVERBS: There are some new animal proverbs today for HAEDUS, the kid, and LUPUS, the wolf. Here's a nice one: Mors lupi agnis vita, "The death of the wolf is life to the lambs."
ANECDOTE OF THE DAY: Today's anecdote is Alexander Sacrificans, the story of a Macedonian boy's bravery while making a sacrifice in Alexander's presence.
FABULAE FACILES: The new easy-to-read fable is Anguis et Milvus, the story of a kite who thought he would catch a snake and carry it off - but things turned out otherwise.
MILLE FABULAE: FABLE OF THE DAY: The fable for today is Bubo et Aves, the story of the owl who was proud of her little owl chicks. (You can also a free PDF copy of the Mille Fabulae et Una book.)
MILLE FABULAE: ILLUSTRATIONS: The latest fables with images are Condemnatus Arbor Eligens, a funny story about a man condemned to hang, and Rusticus in Stercoribus Nutritus, a story about a man who was used to the smell of his barn's manure.
GOOGLE BOOKS: Today's Google Books are Heidelberg's Lateinische Uebungs und Lesebuecher and Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War (the Bullions edition).
DISTICHA: Today's little poems are Aedificare domos multas et pascere multos / Est ad pauperiem semita recta quidem (from Wegeler) and Vincere cum possis, interdum cede sodali; / Obsequio quoniam dulces retinentur amici (from Cato's distichs).
TODAY'S MOTTOES & PROVERBS: Widgets available at Schoolhouse Widgets.
Tiny Proverbs: Today's tiny proverb is: Omnia praetereunt (English: All things pass away).
3-Word Mottoes Verb-less: Today's 3-word verb-less motto is Veritate et iustitia (English: With truth and justice).
Latin Animal Proverb: Today's animal proverb is Non missura cutem nisi plena cruoris hirudo (English: The leech will not let go of the skin unless it's full of blood).
Proverbs of Polydorus: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Sufficit sua diei malitia (English: Sufficient unto the day are its own troubles).
Greek Proverb of the Day: Today's proverb is Κοινὰ τὰ τῶν φίλων (English: Things belonging to friends are held in common).
Proper Name Proverb from Erasmus: Today's proper name proverb from Erasmus is Oedipi imprecatio (English: The curse of Oedipus - which is famously the subject of the tragic play by Sophocles; from Adagia 1.7.61). Here is a famous vase painting of Oedipus and the Sphinx, a moment of triumph which is only part of Oedipus's fated curse: