HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem sextum decimum Kalendas Maias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Achilles and Penthesilea; 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 Aetate prudentiores reddimur (English: We turn out wiser with age).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word proverb is Lux luceat vestra (English: Let your light shine).
RHYMING PROVERBS: Today's proverb with rhyme is: Qui miseros spernit, sibi callem ad tartara sternit (English: He who scorns the wretched is paving his own road to hell).
VULGATE VERSES: Today's verse is Varius eventus est proelii (II Samuel 11:25). 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 Taverner: Summum ius, summa iniuria: Extreme lawe is extreme wrong. This is to say, then most of all men swarve from right and equitie whan they most supersticiouslye sticke to the letters of lawes, not regarding th'intent of the makers. For this is called, Summum ius, that is to say, the extremitie or rigoure of the lawe, whan all the strife and contencion is upon the wordes of the law without any respecte to the meaning and purpose of the lawe makers.
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Compatiens. Click here for a full-sized view.
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Ciconia et Uxor Eius, a marvelous story of some birds with very human problems (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Cicada et Noctua, the story of the owl's revenge on a noisy neighbor.
And I have something special to add today! Thanks to Nemo Oudeis at Google+, we have a true LatinLOLCat, a rejoinder to the LOLCat above! Isn't it wonderful???!
