HODIE (Roman Calendar): Kalendae Novembres, the Kalends of November!
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Medea and the Daughters of Pelias; 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: Veritas praevalebit (English: The truth will prevail).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is Remedium iniuriarum oblivio (English: Forgetting is the cure for injuries)
AUDIO PROVERBS: Today's audio Latin proverb is Stultus quoque, si tacuerit, sapiens reputabitur (English: The fool, too, if he can just keep quiet, will be considered a wise man). 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: Quam miserum est, cum se renovat consumptum malum (English: How wretched it is when a problem which had run its course comes back ... man, that was the theme of my week this week!).
ERASMUS' ANIMALS: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is Mus non uni fidit antro (English: A mouse cannot entrust itself to just one hole; from Adagia 5.1.4).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Fortuna Pereunte. Click here for a full-sized view.
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Mus in Olla, the story of a greedy mouse (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Struthiocamelus et Gallina, a story about a very foolish ostrich, as you can see:
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: εἰσελθὼν πρὸς αὐτὴν εἶπεν, χαῖρε. Ingressus angelus ad eam dixit: Ave! The angel came in unto her and said: Hail!
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 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll; 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.
