HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem decimum Kalendas Iulias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Meleager; 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: Resurgam (English: I shall rise again).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is Victrix malorum patientia (English: Patience is the conqueror of evils - note the gender of victrix; that's because patientia is feminine).
AUDIO PROVERBS: Today's audio Latin proverb is Neminem pecunia divitem fecit (English: Money has never made anyone wealthy). 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: Nil proprium ducas, quidquid mutari potest (English: Do not consider anything to be your own if it can change ... which is to say, nothing at all is really yours since everything is subject to change!).
ERASMUS' ANIMALS: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is Mus non ingrediens antrum, cucurbitam ferebat (English: The mouse couldn't get into its hole because it was carrying a pumpkin; from Adagia 3.3.79).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Maritus Uxorque. 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:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Servus Nihil Faciens, a funny little story about an angry master and his servant (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Herinaceus, Vulpes, et Muscae, a fable which is often read as a political allegory!
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: Ἀσφαλέστερον γὰρ τοῦ λέγειν τὸ σιγᾶν. Tutius est tacere quam loqui. It is safer to keep quiet than to speak.
