HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem tertium Kalendas Februarias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Heracles and the Bull; 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 Contentus vivo parvo (English: I live, content with little).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word proverb is Omnia fato fiunt (English: All things happen by fate).
RHYMING PROVERBS: Today's proverb with rhyme is: Dulcior est fructus post multa pericula ductus (English: The fruit is sweeter when it has been obtained by many perils).
VULGATE VERSES: Today's verse is Tu quis es, qui iudicas proximum? (James 4:12). 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 Conybeare: Festina lente: Make slowe haste: Soft fier maketh sweete malte. It is good to be mery and wise. This is spoken when a man will signifie a thing to be doen, neither to hastily, nor to slowlye, but in a convenient temperaunce.
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Vir Prudens, Vir Fortis. Click here for a full-sized view.
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
TODAY'S FABLES:
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Herinacei et Viperae, a story about vipers who offer to share their home with some hedgehogs.
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Testudo et Iuppiter, the story of how the turtle got its shelf (this fable has a vocabulary list).
Latin Sundials. Below you will find an image of a sundial, and for detailed information about the Latin motto see this blog post: Tempus Fugit; Augebitur Scientia.
