HODIE: ante diem octavum Kalendas Novembres.
ANECDOTE OF THE DAY: Today's anecdote is Plutarchus et Servus Nequam, a very funny story about Plutarch and a slave who might remind people of the servus callidus of a Roman comedy.
SCALA SAPIENTIAE: Today you can find sayings that go up to Diederich frequency ranking 151 - so the proverbs contain nothing but words found among the 151 most commonly used words in Latin. Here is one of the items in today's list: Qui nihil amat, quid ei homini opus vita est? "If a person loves nothing, what need has he of life?"
VERBUM WIDGET: The word from the daily widget is RATIO - which also has a brief essay at the Verbosum blog. Here's one of the sayings you can find in that essay: Nunc est dicendum, nunc cum ratione silendum, "Sometimes you should speak, and sometimes you should purposefully keep silent."
FABULAE FACILES: The NEW easy-to-read fable is Asinus Animalia Fugans et Leo , a funny story about a self-important donkey.
FABULAE FACILES WIDGET: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Scarabaeus et Stercus, a funny story about a dung-beetle and his "home, sweet home."
MILLE FABULAE: ILLUSTRATIONS: The NEW fables with images are Noctua et Sol, a story about the owl and its eyesight, and Columbae Pullus a Corvo Raptus, a story about a dove whose chick has been seized by a very cruel crow.
MILLE FABULAE: ILLUSTRATIONS: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Taurus et Culex , the story of a bull and a self-important gnat.
GOOGLE BOOKS: Today's Google Books are Bland's Proverbs Chiefly Taken from the Adagia of Erasmus and Schottus' Paroimiai Ellenikai .
TODAY'S MOTTOES & PROVERBS: Widgets available at Schoolhouse Widgets.
Tiny Mottoes: Today's tiny motto is: Nil desperandum (English: We must never despair).
3-Word Proverbs Verb-less: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is Post acerba prudenter (English: After bitter experiences, act cautiously).
Audio Latin Proverb: Today's audio Latin proverb is Tranquillo quilibet gubernator est (English: When it's calm, anybody can be the helmsman). 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: Iracundiam qui vincit, hostem superat maximum (English: If you tame your anger, you defeat your greatest enemy).
Animal Proverb from Erasmus: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is Suo ipsius indicio periit sorex (English: The shrew-mouse perished by its own testimony - which is to say that it squeaked when it should have just kept quiet! - from Adagia 1.3.65).
For an image today, here is Cranach's Adam and Eve, accompanied by the Owen epigram which is an anagram about EVA-VAE-AVE (check the Disticha blog post for vocabulary, notes and more information):
Eva, parens mortis, malo te falsa fefellit,
Cumque tuum struet vae, tibi dixit ave.
Cumque tuum struet vae, tibi dixit ave.
