HODIE (Roman Calendar): Kalendae Martiae. It's the Kalends of March!
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Odysseus and Diomedes; 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: Perculsus elevor (English: Though struck, I lift myself up).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is Omnium idem exitus (English: Everyone's exit is the same)
AUDIO PROVERBS: Today's audio Latin proverb is Alter frenis, alter eget calcaribus (English: One person has need of reins, another of spurs). 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: Mala est inopia, ex copia quae nascitur (English: It's a bad poverty which is born from plenty).
ERASMUS' ANIMALS: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is Asinus balneatoris (English: The bathkeeper's donkey; from Adagia 4.4.50 - this proverbial donkey never gets a bath, even though he spends all day hauling bathwater for others).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Nil Ultra Vires. 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 Viatores Duo et Bipennis., the story of two travelers who argued over an axe.
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Lupus et Pastor, Compatres, the story of the foolish man who entrusted his sheep to a wolf (this fable has a vocabulary list).
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: ἰδοὺ ὁ ἄνθρωπος. Ecce homo. Behold the man!
