HODIE: ante diem septimum Kalendas Decembres.
OWEN'S EPIGRAMS: The two new Owen epigrams, with Harvey's English versions, are De Vita et Venere and De Statu Hominum. (They each come a vocabulary list!)
ANECDOTE OF THE DAY: Today's anecdote is Cornelia, Gracchorum Mater, the story of Cornelia and her "jewels."
VERBUM WIDGET: The word from the daily widget is VESPER - which also has a brief essay at the Verbosum blog. Here's one of the sayings you can find in that essay: Vespere laudatur dies, "The day may be praised in the evening" (which is to say: it's risky to praise the day before it is done!).
FABULAE FACILES: The NEW easy-to-read fable is Accipiter Columbam Insequens, the story of a hawk and his request for clemency (and the fable comes with a vocabulary list).
FABULAE FACILES WIDGET: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Aesopus et Arcus, where Aesop teaches us the value of taking a break (a good fable for the holiday weekend!).
MILLE FABULAE: The "chunk" of Mille Fabulae et Una today is Fable 81 through Fable 90, including Lupus et Pastoris Vestimentum, a story of the wolf in shepherd's clothing (not sheep's clothing this time).
NEW MILLE FABULAE: The NEW fables with images are Agricola Sorte Sua Non Contentus, a story about a farmer trying to better his life but who only makes things worse, and Rusticus et Pons, a story about a foolish man waiting for a river to run dry.
MILLE FABULAE WIDGET: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Crocodilus et Canis, the story of a close encounter between a dog and a Nile crocodile.
AESOP IN ENGLISH VERSE: Today's fable from the English verse widget is Neither Beast Nor Bird, the story of the perfidious ostrich.
GOOGLE BOOKS: Today's Google Books are Camerarius' Symbola et Emblemata and Caussin's Polyhistor Symbolicus .
TODAY'S MOTTOES & PROVERBS: Widgets available at Schoolhouse Widgets.
Tiny Mottoes: Today's tiny motto is: Tandem iustitia (English: Justice, at last).
3-Word Proverbs Verb-less: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is Virtus sibimet merces (English: Excellence is its own reward)
Audio Latin Proverb: Today's audio Latin proverb is Nutrit et accipiter pullos suos (English: Even a hawk nourishes its chicks). 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: Nec vita nec fortuna hominibus perpes est (English: Neither life nor luck is something that lasts forever).
Animal Proverb from Erasmus: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is Cauda tenes anguillam (English: You're trying to hold an eel by the tail - which is to say, you've barely got control of the situation; from Adagia 1.4.94).
For an image today, here is Cornelia, the famous mother of the Gracchi brothers: Cornelia, Gracchorum mater, cum Campana matrona, apud illam hospita, ornamenta sua pulcherrima ipsi ostenderet, traxit eam sermone, donec e schola redirent liberi. Tum, "Et haec," inquit, "mea sunt ornamenta." (source)
