HODIE: ante diem octavum Kalendas Martias.
GOOGLE BOOKS: Today's Google Books are Binder's Flores Aenigmatum Latinorum and Textor's Sylloge.
MYTHS & LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows The Daughters of Cecrops; you can also see the legends for the current week listed together here.
TODAY'S DISTICHS & EMBLEMS: All the distichs come with vocabulary lists!
RHYMING DISTICHS: The two new Rhyming Distichs are Quod tibi vis fieri, Quod tibi vis fieri, mihi fac: quod non tibi, noli; / Sic potes in terris vivere iure poli.; and O homo, si scires, O homo, si scires, quidnam esses, unde venires, / Nunquam gauderes, sed in omni tempore fleres..
CATO'S DISTICHS: The two new Cato Distichs are Nec te conlaudes, Nec te conlaudes, nec te culpaveris ipse; / Hoc faciunt stulti, quos gloria vexat inanis.; and Litis praeteritae, Litis praeteritae noli maledicta referre: / Post inimicitias iram meminisse malorum est.
OWEN'S DISTICHS: The two new Owen epigrams, with Harvey's English versions, are Optativus Modus, Infinitivo prope par modus optativus: / Optandi finem nam sibi nemo facit; and Quod Differtur Non Aufertur, Differt non aufert mortem longissima vita; / Quid differt igitur cras hodieve mori?.
ROLLENHAGEN'S EMBLEMS: The two new emblems are Musica, Serva Dei, Musica, serva Dei, nobis haec otia fecit: / Illa potest homines, illa movere Deum; and Ingenii Largitor Venter, Me docet ingenii venter largitor et artis, / Calculus impositus quod bene trudat aquam.
CAMERARIUS'S EMBLEMS: The two new emblems are Armis Non Omnia Cedunt, Piscibus ipse aliis formidabilis hostis, / Mox hostis misere me necat exiguus; and Non Captu Facilis, Nubibus, ecce, Iovis volat altior omnibus ales; / Tu quoque ad alta animum, si sapis, astra leva.
TODAY'S MOTTOES & PROVERBS:
TINY PROVERBS: Today's tiny proverb is: Nil time (English: Fear nothing).
3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word verb-less motto is Post nubes lux (English: After clouds, the light).
ANIMAL PROVERBS: Today's animal proverb is Qui fuit rana, nunc est rex (English: He who was a frog is now a king).
POLYDORUS: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Diligite iustitiam, qui iudicatis terram (English: Cherish justice, you who rule the land).
PROPER NAME PROVERBS: Today's proper name proverb from Erasmus is Alia Lacon, alia asinus illius portat (English: Lacon is carrying one thing, but his donkey is carrying something else; from Adagia 2.2.86 - trying to avoid taxes, Lacon hid his honey underneath some barley, but the donkey slipped and fell, revealing the hidden honey).
GREEK PROVERBS: Today's proverb is Ἐν παισὶ μὴν γέρων, ἐν δὲ γέρουσι παῖς (English: An old man amidst the boys, a boy amidst the old men).
TODAY'S FABLES & STORIES:
FABULAE FACILES WIDGET: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Satyrus et Viator, the story of the satyr who rescued a traveller lost in the snow (this one also has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The "chunk" of Mille Fabulae et Una today is Fable 481, Mergus et Stellae, through Fable 490, Passer in Myrto Degens, including Hirundo et Iuvenis, the story of the boy who did not know the proverb about how one swallow does not a summer make!
MILLE FABULAE WIDGET: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Formica et Columba, a story about two little creatures who help one another.
AESOP IN ENGLISH VERSE: Today's fable from the English verse widget is The Trumpeter Taken Prisoner, a very thought-provoking fable about war and warmongers.
ANECDOTE OF THE DAY: Today's anecdote is Sophocles, a wonderful anecdote about old age: Sophocles ad summam senectutem tragoedias fecit. Cum propterea rem familiarem negligere videretur, a filiis in iudicium vocatus est, ut iudices illum, quasi disipientem, a re familiari removerent. Tum senex dicitur eam fabulam quam proxime scripserat, Oedipum Coloneum, recitasse iudicibus et quaesivisse num illud carmen desipientis esse videretur. Carmine recitato, a iudicio absolutus est.
