HODIE: ante diem sextum Kalendas Septembres.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows The Death of Procris; you can also see the legends for the current week listed together here.
TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
TINY MOTTOES: Today's tiny motto is: Tenax propositi (English: Firm of purpose).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is Omne initium difficile (English: Every beginning is difficult)
AUDIO PROVERBS: Today's audio Latin proverb is Auream mediocritatem diligo (English: I cherish the golden mean). To read a brief essay about this proverb and to listen to the audio, visit the Latin Via Proverbs blog.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS: Today's proverb from Publilius Syrus is: Necessitas ab homine, quae vult, impetrat (English: What necessity wants from you, she takes).
ERASMUS' ANIMALS: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is Bubo canit lusciniae (English: The owl is singing to the nightingale - a very foolish state of affairs indeed; from Adagia 4.4.12).
BREVISSIMA: The distich for today is Vita Malis Libera: Nec cupio nec opes opto mihi: sit mihi parvo / Laeta, sed a duris libera vita malis.
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Ranae et Puer, a story about the difference between fun & games for the boys and life & death for the frogs (this fable has a vocabulary list).
AESOP IN ENGLISH VERSE: Today's fable from the English verse widget is The Man and the Dogs, a story which features an appearance by Aesop himself.
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Lupus et Persona Tragoedi, a variation on the famous fable of the fox and the actor's mask - but this time with a wolf.
