HODIE: ante diem quintum Kalendas Iunias (and yes, you can have your own Roman Google Calendar).
VERBUM HODIERNUM: Today's word is MENS - read a brief essay about the word at the Verbosum blog. Here's one of the sayings you can find in the essay: Scientia sol mentis, "Knowledge is the sun of the mind."
ANECDOTE OF THE DAY: Today's anecdote is the Aesop's fable Agricola et Filii Eius, which teaches the virtue of solidarity.
FABULAE FACILES: The new easy-to-read fable is Aquila et Sagitta, the story of the eagle undone by its own feathers.
MILLE FABULAE: FABLE OF THE DAY: The fable for today is Asina Aegrota et Lupus , the story of the donkey and the wolf who wanted to be her doctor. (You can also a free PDF copy of the Mille Fabulae et Una book.)
MILLE FABULAE: ILLUSTRATIONS: The latest fables with images are Iuppiter et Dolium, an Aesopic twist on Pandora's box, and Sceleratus et Daemon, the story of a criminal who wore out the devil himself.
GOOGLE BOOKS: Today's Google Books are Maclardy's Aeneid Book I and Dennison's Aeneid.
DISTICHA: Today's little poems are Asper erit victus, labor asper et asper amictus, / Aspera cuncta tibi, si vis super aethera scribi (from Wegeler) and Contra verbosos noli contendere verbis: / Sermo datur cunctis, animi sapientia paucis (from Cato's distichs).
TODAY'S MOTTOES & PROVERBS: Widgets available at Schoolhouse Widgets.
Tiny Proverbs: Today's tiny proverb is: Hydram secas (English: You're slashing at the hydra - an allusion to Hercules's own struggle against that mythical beast!).
3-Word Mottoes Verb-less: Today's 3-word verb-less motto is Pro mundi beneficio (English: For the good of the world).
Latin Animal Proverb: Today's animal proverb is Pastor bonus animam suam dat pro ovibus (English: The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep).
Proverbs of Polydorus: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Lupum auribus teneo (English: I've got the wolf by the ears - which is to say that it is dangerous to hold on and just as dangerous to let go!).
Proper Name Proverb from Erasmus: Today's proper name proverb from Erasmus is Iovis sandalium (English: Jupiter's sandal; from Adagia 2.7.76 - this was a proverbial expression for some paltry object that claimed to be associated with a celebrity).
Greek Proverb of the Day: Today's proverb is : Ἄκρον λάβε, καὶ μέσον ἕξεις (English: Grab for the top and you will have the middle).
For an image today, here is an illustration to go with the proverb Hydram secas - it's Hercules solving that proverbial problem in order to accomplish one of his labors, assisted by his nephew Iolaus, with this Latin caption: Hercules Una Cum Iolao Hydram Occidit.
