HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem tertium Idus Maias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Heracles and the Mares of Diomedes; 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: Spectemur agendo (English: Let us be regarded as we act).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is Roma caput mundi (English: Rome is the head of the world)
AUDIO PROVERBS: Today's audio Latin proverb is Nemo cum sarcinis enatat (English: No one swims away with his bundles). 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: Dulce etiam fugias, quod amarum fieri potest (English: You should flee even from something sweet which can turn bitter).
ERASMUS' ANIMALS: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is Cancros lepori comparas (English: You're comparing crabs to a rabbit - which are "apples and oranges" as it were when it comes to their swift-footedness; from Adagia 1.8.85).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Lingua Una, Aures Duae. Click here for a full-sized view; the poem has a vocabulary list and an English translation, too.
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
TODAY'S FABLES:
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Alcedo et Nidus Eius, a story of "halcyon days."
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Cervus et Amici Eius, the sad story of the deer whose friends were worse than enemies (this fable has a vocabulary list).
Greek Bible Art - and Latin and English, too. Below is one of my Greek Bible Art graphics; for the individual Greek, Latin and English versions of the graphic, see the blog post: φέρουσιν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὸν γολγοθᾶν τόπον. perducunt illum in Golgotha locum. They bring him unto the place Golgotha.
