HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem quartum Nonas Martias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Eurydice and the Snake; 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: Spero meliora (English: I hope for better things).
3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word verb-less motto is Cura atque industria (English: By means of care and effort).
ANIMAL PROVERBS: Today's animal proverb is Ut apes geometriam (English: As the bees know their geometry).
POLYDORUS: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Qui parce seminat, parce et metet (English: He who sows sparingly will likewise reap sparingly).
PROPER NAME PROVERBS: Today's proper name proverb from Erasmus is Panidis suffragium (English: The judgment of Panides; from Adagia 3.1.32 - In the fabled contest between Homer and Hesiod, Panides, a Euboean king, was the foolish judge who would have awarded the victory to Hesiod).
GREEK PROVERBS: Today's proverb is Ὀυκ ἔστιν ἐν πολέμῳ δὶς ἁμαρτάνειν (English: One cannot err twice in war).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Credo Quod Video. Click here for a full-sized view; the poem has a vocabulary list and an English translation, too.
And here is today's proverbial lolcat:
TODAY'S FABLES AND SONGS:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Hercules et Rusticus, a great story about how God, in this case the divine Hercules, helps them that help themselves (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Ostreum et Mus, the story of a mouse who met his end inside an oyster.
GreekLOLz - and Latin and English, too. Below is one of my GreekLOLz; for the individual Greek, Latin and English versions of the graphic, see the blog post: Αὐτοῦ Ῥόδος, αὐτοῦ πήδημα. Hic Rhodus, hic saltus. Here be Rhodes, here be your jump.
