HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem sextum decimum Kalendas Septembres.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Orestes and the Furies; you can also see the legends for the current week listed together here.
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TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
TINY PROVERBS: Today's tiny proverb is: Fama volat (English: Rumor flies - and she flies even faster now that there is the Internet!).
3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word verb-less motto is Spe labor levis (English: With hope, hard work becomes easy).
ANIMAL PROVERBS: Today's animal proverb is Thesaurizate vobis thesauros in caelo, ubi neque erugo neque tinea demolitur (English: Lay up your treasure in heaven, where neither rust nor moths destroy it).
POLYDORUS: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Granum frumenti mortuum multum affert fructum (English: The seed of grain, when it dies, brings forth a great harvest).
PROPER NAME PROVERBS: Today's proper name proverb from Erasmus is Mylus omnia audiens (English: Mylus listening to everything; from Adagia 2.7.52 - This refers to someone who pretends to be deaf or not listening, but who is actually listening to everything).
GREEK PROVERBS: Today's proverb is Ὁ δύο πτῶκας διώκων, οὐδέτερον καταλαμβάνει (English: He who chases two rabbits catches neither one).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is De Seipso. Click here for a full-sized view; the poem has a vocabulary list and an English translation, too.
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And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
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TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Minerva et Naufragus, the story of Athena and the shipwrecked Athenian - one of my favorites! (This fable has a vocabulary list.)
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Hirundo et Iuvenis, the story of a young man who did not heed the proverb that "one swallow does not a summer make."
![Iuvenis et Hirundo](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4095/4906509906_102f5a57f6.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: ἐξέτεινεν Αβρααμ τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ λαβεῖν τὴν μάχαιραν. Extenditque manum, et arripuit gladium. And Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife.
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Myth and Folklore Books. I'm accumulating some book recommendations for the classes I teach and wanted to share them here. Today's book is A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine by Percy J. Billinghurst; you can see the table of contents here. This is a free Amazon Kindle eBook, and you don't need a Kindle to read it - you can read Kindle books on any computer or mobile device, or you can use the Amazon Cloud Reader in your browser.
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