HODIE: ante diem septimum decimum Kalendas Iulias (and yes, you can have your own Roman Google Calendar).
VERBUM HODIERNUM: Today's word is IPSE - read a brief essay about the word at the Verbosum blog. Here's one of the sayings you can find in the essay: Nemo se ipsum effugit, "No one can escape himself."
ANECDOTE OF THE DAY: Today's anecdote is Stabula Augeae, the famous story of how Hercules managed to clean the stablesof King Augeas of Elis.
FABULAE FACILES: The new easy-to-read fable is Piscator Aquam Verberans, a fable about an environmental paradox: what is good for one person, is not necessarily good for the community.
MILLE FABULAE: FABLE OF THE DAY: The fable for today is Mercurius et Viator, the story of a perfidious traveler and the god Mercury. (You can also a free PDF copy of the Mille Fabulae et Una book.)
MILLE FABULAE: ILLUSTRATIONS: The latest fables with images are Salix et Agricola, the story of a willow who foolishly yearned for higher things, and Pisces et Quadrupedes, the story of the ill-fated alliance between the animals and the fish.
GOOGLE BOOKS: Today's Google Books are Rolfe's edition of Heauton Timorumenos and Welch & Duffield's Eutropius Adapted for the Use of Beginners.
DISTICHA: Today's little poems are Tu duc Stultitiam, mihi sit Sapientia coniunx. / Tu regito uxorem, me mea nupta regat (from Owen) and Verba homines facimus, fecit Deus omnia verbo. / Ipse Deus verbum est, nos quoque verba sumus (also from Owen).
TODAY'S MOTTOES & PROVERBS: Widgets available at Schoolhouse Widgets.
Tiny Proverbs: Today's tiny proverb is: Tene fortiter (English: Hold on tightly).
3-Word Mottoes Verb-less: Today's 3-word verb-less motto is Virtute, non vi (English: By virtue, not violence).
Latin Animal Proverb: Today's animal proverb is Currus bovem trahit (English: The cart is dragging the ox).
Proverbs of Polydorus: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Multa cadunt inter calicem supremaque labra (English: Many things fall between the cup and the tip of the lip).
Greek Proverb of the Day: Today's proverb is Πολλῶν ὁ λίμος γίνεται διδάσκαλος (English: Hunger becomes a teacher of many things).
Proper Name Proverb from Erasmus: Today's proper name proverb from Erasmus is Endymionis somnum dormis (English: You're sleeping the sleep of Endymion; from Adagia 1.9.63).
For an image today, here is a painting of Endymion asleep, with Selene (the moon) looking on - you can read more about this myth at Wikipedia.
