HODIE (Roman Calendar): pridie Idus Iunias, the day before the Ides of June.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Pygmalion and the Statue; you can also see the legends for the current week listed together here.
![](http://widgets.bestmoodle.net/images/mythimages/PygmalionGalatea.jpg)
TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
TINY PROVERBS: Today's tiny proverb is: Respice finem (English: Look to the end).
3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word verb-less motto is Nunc aut nunquam (English: Now or never).
ANIMAL PROVERBS: Today's animal proverb is Dum canis os rodit, socium quem diligit odit (English: While the dog is gnawing a bone, he hates the companion whom he had loved).
POLYDORUS: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Multa cadunt inter calicem supremaque labra (English: Many things fall between the cup and the tip of the lip).
PROPER NAME PROVERBS: Today's proper name proverb from Erasmus is Endymionis somnum dormis (English: You're sleeping the sleep of Endymion; from Adagia 1.9.63).
GREEK PROVERBS: Today's proverb is Λίθος κυλιόμενος φῦκος οὐ ποιεῖ (English: A rolling stone gathers no moss - or, in Greek, makes no lichen!).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Magnus Timet. Click here for a full-sized view; the poem has a vocabulary list and an English translation, too.
![](http://widgets.bestmoodle.net/images/brevissima/brev0095.jpg)
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
![](http://widgets.bestmoodle.net/images/lolcat/Ne_crede_oculis_falli_possunt.jpg)
![](http://widgets.bestmoodle.net/images/lolcat/ferendaestfortuna.jpg)
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Mus in Cista Natus, the story of a mouse who broadened his horizons (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Asinus et Tempora Anni, the sad story of a year in the life of a hard-working donkey.
![Asinus et Herus](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4097/4925301088_80f01844cc.jpg)
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: ἐπλήσθη πνεύματος ἁγίου ἡ ἐλισάβετ. Repleta est Spiritu Sancto Elisabeth. Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWcKH4_ZfGbXXjIsuMkrMuwSOUyss2gyqDJshtTTCr5zsMrc_k2S3YRcrucD29aTsp-Fhosx_OYR72RVR-OXs9QOsaisHpy1pnkUhxQ4abutDf4eWvAzkDZnYO4dkNGYDTcEaNfHYFSzw/s400/luke001041.gif)