HODIE: ante diem quintum decimum Kalendas Novembres.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Infant Heracles and the Snakes; you can also see the legends for the current week listed together here.
TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
TINY PROVERBS: Today's tiny proverb is: Aeternitatem cogita (English: Think about eternity).
3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word verb-less motto is Ex unitate vires (English: From unity, strength).
ANIMAL PROVERBS: Today's animal proverb is Non faciunt meliorem equum aurei freni (English: Golden reins do not make a better horse).
POLYDORUS: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Divitiae si affluant, nolite cor apponere (English: If riches abound, do not set your heart on them).
PROPER NAME PROVERBS: Today's proper name proverb from Erasmus is Atlas caelum (English: Atlas holds up the sky; from Adagia 1.1.67 - a proverb for people who take on troublesome burdens and then can't get out of them).
GREEK PROVERBS: Today's proverb is Ἐχῖνος τὸν τόκον ἀναβάλλει (English: The hedgehog puts off giving birth - the idea being that the hedgehog doesn't want to put give birth to prickly babies... but the longer she waits, the more prickly the babies become).
BREVISSIMA: The distich for today is Pereunt Omnia: Quod fuit, est, et erit, periit spatio brevis horae; / Ergo parum refert esse, fuisse, fore.
And here is today's proverbial lolcat:
TODAY'S FABLES:
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Ranae et Taurorum Proelia, a story about the battles of the high and mighty.
AESOP IN ENGLISH VERSE: Today's fable from the English verse widget is The Oxen and the Butchers, a story about the lesser of two evils.
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Iuppiter et Olitoris Asinus, a story about the donkey's sad fate (this fable has a vocabulary list).
