HODIE (Roman Calendar): pridie Nonas Maias, the day before the Nones of May.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Hypermnestra ; 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: Hactenus invictus (English: Thus far, unconquered).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is Tempus optima medicina (English: Time is the best medicine)
AUDIO PROVERBS: Today's audio Latin proverb is Amicus omnibus, amicus nemini (English: A friend to all, a friend to none). 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: Paucorum est intellegere, quid celet deus (English: It's for only a few to know what God has concealed).
ERASMUS' ANIMALS: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is E squilla non nascitur rosa (English: A rose is not born from a shrimp; from Adagia 2.3.93).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Sic Mihi Vita. 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 Simiae Saltantes, a funny little story about how monkeys will always be monkeys.
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Alauda, Pulli, et Agri Dominus, the story, found in Ennius, that tells about a wise mother bird (this fable has a vocabulary list).
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: Ἄλλοτε μητρυιὴ πέλει ἡμέρα, ἄλλοτε μήτηρ. Ipsa dies quandoque parens, quandoque noverca. Sometimes the day is your mother, sometimes your stepmother.
