HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem octavum Kalendas Apriles.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Deidamia; you can also see the legends for the current week listed together here.
![](http://widgets.bestmoodle.net/images/mythimages/Deidamia.jpg)
TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
TINY MOTTOES: Today's tiny motto is: Ne nimium (English: Not too much).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is Historia magistra vitae (English: History is the teacher of life)
AUDIO PROVERBS: Today's audio Latin proverb is Patria sua cuique iucundissima (English: To each person, his own fatherland is the most agreeable). 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: Beneficia plura recipit, qui scit reddere (English: Someone who knows how to do favors will receive them).
ERASMUS' ANIMALS: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is Asinus stramenta mavult quam aurum (English: The donkey prefers straw to gold; from Adagia 4.8.38).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Spes Una. Click here for a full-sized view.
![](http://widgets.bestmoodle.net/images/brevissima/brev0238.jpg)
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
![](http://widgets.bestmoodle.net/images/lolcat/timendicausaestnescire.jpg)
![](http://widgets.bestmoodle.net/images/lolcat/carminamortecarent.jpg)
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Canis et Umbra, the famous story of the dog fooled by his own reflection (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Canis Parturiens Domicilium Quaerens, a story about a wicked houseguest.
![canes duae](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4135/4909572160_573673b975.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: ἐποίησεν Μωυσῆς ὄφιν χαλκοῦν. Fecit Moyses serpentem aeneum. Moses made a serpent of brass.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_6TqbS5SQej_VVQARRiBbolyyuJtpDeLW1gMAKtEhHsD4m274nHhRgzAo83MHN96MrcavWvC0wCfTExKugxahdkrTcXS5afGTJPQ4g19NcN1wPhMdQjkYV55j4jtaaV3ex3OW3Q8LcKE/s400/numbers021009.gif)