HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem sextum Kalendas Iulias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Jason Seizes the Golden Fleece; you can also see the legends for the current week listed together here.
TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word motto is Respice, adspice, prospice (English: Look back, look at, look ahead).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word proverb is Spes alit agricolas (English: Hope nourishes farmers).
RHYMING PROVERBS: Today's proverb with rhyme is: Non mare transisset, pavidus si nauta fuisset (English: The sailor would not have crossed the sea if he had been afraid).
VULGATE VERSES: Today's verse is Diligite inimicos vestros et benefacite (Luke 6:35). For a translation, check out the polyglot Bible, in English, Hebrew, Latin and Greek, at the Sacred Texts Archive online.
ELIZABETHAN PROVERBS: Here is today's proverb commentary, this time by Taverner: Neque mel, neque apes: I have neither honie, nor bees. As who should say: I have no hony, bycause I have no bees, nor will not take the paines, to kepe and abide the bitinge and stinginge of them.
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Senex et Iuvenis. 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 Apes et Pastor, a story that goes nicely with the proverb about bees cited above (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Formica Transformata, the wonderful story of the origins of the ant.
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: μὴ φοβοῦ, μαριάμ. Ne timeas, Maria. Fear not, Mary.
