HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem septimum Kalendas Martias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows The Sword of Damocles; you can also see the legends for the current week listed together here.
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TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
TINY MOTTOES: Today's tiny motto is: Nil timeo (English: I fear nothing).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is Iniuriarum remedium oblivio (English: The remedy for injuries is to forget about them)
AUDIO PROVERBS: Today's audio Latin proverb is Cuique suum (English: To each his own). 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: Cunctis potest accidere quod cuivis potest (English: What can happen to anybody can happen to everybody).
ERASMUS' ANIMALS: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is Piscis primum a capite foetet (English: The fish starts to stink from the head - a metaphor for other things that go bad from the top down; from Adagia 4.2.97).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Exiguo Vivitur. Click here for a full-sized view.
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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 Cicada et Asinus, the sad story of a donkey who wanted a different voice (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Columba et Hydria Picta, the story of a dove who was fooled by a painting of a water jug.
![Columba et Hydria Picta](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4098/4924704427_b80d750e88.jpg)
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