Round-Up: August 31

Here is a round-up of today's proverbs and fables - and for previous posts, check out the Bestiaria Latina Blog archives. It's not a Latin thing, but if anyone is interested in my real job (teaching online courses for the University of Oklahoma), I did a podcast interview with the Ed. School at the University of British Columbia about my experience teaching online (for ten years now, which is a long time in the online teaching world) - the interview was a lot of fun! You can hear the podcast embedded in this blog post; my interview starts about 9 minutes into the podcast.

HODIE: pridie Kalendas Septembres, the day before the Kalends of September.

MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Diana and Endymion; you can also see the legends for the current week listed together here.

TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:

3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word motto is Laboranti numen adest (English: Divine power attends the person who works hard).

3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word proverb is Quae legeris, memento (English: What you read, remember).

RHYMING PROVERBS: Today's proverb with rhyme is: Ostia cur claudis, si vocem pauperis audis? (English: Why do you close the door if you hear the voice of a poor man?).

VULGATE VERSES: Today's verse is Multos perdidit aurum atque argentum (Sirach 8:2). For a translation, check out the polyglot Bible, in English, Hebrew, Latin and Greek, at the Sacred Texts Archive online.

ELIZABETHAN PROVERBS: Here is today's proverb commentary, this time by Conybeare: Equinae caudae pilos vellere: To plucke the heares of an horsse tayle. A proverbe spoken of hem that by litle and litle atchieveth that he coulde not doe immediatly altogeather.

BREVISSIMA: The distich for today is Spes et Fides: Nulla foret, nisi certa fides foret, unaque semper; / At si certa foret spes mea, nulla foret.

TODAY'S FABLES:

AESOP IN ENGLISH VERSE: Today's fable from the English verse widget is The Married Mouse, the story of the mouse who made the big mistake of marrying a lion.

FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Lupus et Pastor, Compatres, the story of the man who foolishly entrusted his sheep to the wolf (this fable has a vocabulary list).

MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Apollo et Vir Facinorosus, the story of the wicked man who thought he could fool the god Apollo.