HODIE: ante diem octavum Idus Augustas.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Aeneas and Turnus; 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 Rem omnem considera (English: Consider the whole business).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word proverb is Diem vesper commendat (English: The evening commends the day).
RHYMING PROVERBS: Today's proverb with rhyme is: Mortis linque metus, si tu vis vivere laetus (English: Put aside any fears of death, if you want to live happily).
VULGATE VERSES: Today's verse is Usque ad mortem certa pro iustitia (Sirach 4:28). 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 Taverner: Satius est recurrere, quam currere male: Better it is to runne backe againe, than to runne forth amisse. Many be eyther so shamefast, or els so stricte in theyr own opinion, that they had lever runne forth still in errour and out of the way, than to apply them selves to better and more holsome counsailes.
BREVISSIMA: The distich for today is Nil Amicitia Gratius: Ad bene vivendum quidquid natura paravit, / Nil datum amicitia gratius est homini.
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES WIDGET: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Ollae Duae, the story of a friendship between two mismatched pots (this fable has a vocabulary list).
AESOP IN ENGLISH VERSE: Today's fable from the English verse widget is The Ass and the Shepherd, a story about political change... this will be a good one to look at again come November!
MILLE FABULAE WIDGET: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Pater, Filii, et Agrorum Cultura, the story of how an ingenious father taught his sons the value of hard work.
