HODIE: ante diem tertium Nonas Iulias.
SCALA SAPIENTIAE: The latest rungs on the Scala are Scala 27 (1301-1350), Scala 28 (1351-1400), Scala 29 (1401-1450), and Scala 30 (1451-1500). Here's a fun one: Nullum mendacium sine teste, "No lie lacks a witness."
VERBUM HODIERNUM: Today's word is QUASI - read a brief essay about the word at the Verbosum blog. Here's one of the sayings you can find in the essay: Laudatur nummus, quasi rex super omnia summus, "Money is praised as if it were the highest king over all."
ANECDOTE OF THE DAY: Today's anecdote is Argus, the story of the hundred-eyed monster.
FABULAE FACILES: The new easy-to-read fable is Puer et Paedagogus, the story of a boy in desperate trouble and his very unhelpful teacher.
MILLE FABULAE: FABLE OF THE DAY: The fable for today is Asinus, Gallus, et Leo, the story of an overly audacious donkey.
MILLE FABULAE: ILLUSTRATIONS: The latest fables with images are Apes et Agricola, a fable about the bee and its sting, and Serpens et Rosa, a story about a serpent carrying a rose in its mouth.
GOOGLE BOOKS: Today's Google Books are Nunn's An Introduction to Ecclesiastical Latin and Underwood's edition of Celsus, Books I-IV.
DISTICHA: Today's little poems are Vive Deo gratus, toti mundo tumulatus, / Pectore pacatus, semper transire paratus. (from Wegeler) and Quam primum rapienda tibi est occasio prima, / Ne rursus quaeras quae iam neglexeris ante. (from Cato's distichs).
TODAY'S MOTTOES & PROVERBS: Widgets available at Schoolhouse Widgets.
3-Word Mottoes: Today's 3-word motto is Sub pondere cresco (English: Beneath my burden, I grow).
3-Word Proverbs: Today's 3-word proverb is Diversi diversa putant (English: Different people think different things).
Rhyming Proverbs: Today's proverb with rhyme is: Est facies testis, quales intrinsecus estis (English: The face provides evidence of what you are inwardly).
Vulgate Verse: Today's verse is Beatius est magis dare quam accipere (Acts 20:35). For a translation, check out the polyglot Bible, in English, Hebrew, Latin and Greek, at the Sacred Texts Archive online.
Elizabethan Proverb Commentary: Here is today's proverb commentary, this time by Conybeare: Muli mutuum scabunt: Mules do gnap or rubbe one another. A proverbe applied to persons ill and defamed, when one of them doth prayse the other.
Today's image is Argus: Interim Iuno maritum in pellicum amores turpiter effusum observans, illi custodem apposuit centum oculis praeditum, Argum nomine. Molestum observatorem Iupiter, opera Mercurii, obtruncavit; eius oculos Iuno indidit pavonis caudae. Argum ipsum, ut alii volunt, in pavonem mutavit. (source) - here is a depiction of Mercury killing Argus:
