HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem quintum Nonas Martias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Pentheus; you can also see the legends for the current week listed together here.
![](http://widgets.bestmoodle.net/images/mythimages/Pentheus.jpg)
TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
TINY PROVERBS: Today's tiny proverb is: Festina lente (English: Make haste slowly).
3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word verb-less motto is Mihi solicitudo futuri (English: My concern is for the future).
ANIMAL PROVERBS: Today's animal proverb is Gallus in sterquilinio suo plurimum potest (English: A rooster in his dung heap can do a great deal).
POLYDORUS: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Qui parce seminat, parce et metet (English: He who sows sparingly will likewise reap sparingly).
PROPER NAME PROVERBS: Today's proper name proverb from Erasmus is Parni scaphula (English: The skiff of Parnus; from Adagia 2.5.17 - This refers to someone who will start a quarrel at the least excuse, as when someone stole his worthless little boat).
GREEK PROVERBS: Today's proverb is Ἀετὸν ἵπτασθαι διδάσκεις (English: You're teaching an eagle to fly... when of course the eagle flies faster and higher than you ever will!).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Nec Summus, Nec Ultimus, Sed Medius. Click here for a full-sized view.
![](http://widgets.bestmoodle.net/images/brevissima/brev0227.jpg)
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
![](http://widgets.bestmoodle.net/images/lolcat/Parentes_ama.jpg)
![](http://widgets.bestmoodle.net/images/lolcat/otiumpostnegotium.jpg)
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Hercules et Rusticus, the fabulous story of Hercules and the lazy farmer (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Camelus et Iuppiter, the story of the camel's ill-conceived petition to Jupiter.
![Camelus et Iuppiter - Osius](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4080/4909066857_ecbb426b8c.jpg)
GreekLOLz - and Latin and English, too. Below is one of my GreekLOLz; for the individual Greek, Latin and English versions of the graphic, see the blog post: Ἄτλας τὸν οὐρανόν. Atlas caelum. Atlas holds the sky.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioU1tewVWVKjsCdi6tzcM13icr_1UTYp86bTbh_7AknQ5kACm1W3ODQNbkV3bo5QwVzzmoRz82JaQ6S63Z6FpUZJam_BndX4ry37zy071uAGhzp-o347BsjSf-608-2wEtoLrNuVUokFA/s400/c04023.gif)