HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem quartum Idus Maias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Venus, Pygmalion and the Statue; 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: Spectemur agendo (English: Let us be regarded as we act).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is Roma caput mundi (English: Rome is the head of the world)
AUDIO PROVERBS: Today's audio Latin proverb is Nemo cum sarcinis enatat (English: No one swims away with his bundles). 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: Deliberando saepe perit occasio (English: Often opportunity is lost while pondering options).
ERASMUS' ANIMALS: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is Locrensis bos (English: A Locrian ox; from Adagia 2.8.62 - This refers to a cheap substitution: when the gods expected a sacrificial ox, the Locrians made a tiny ox of wood and sacrificed that instead).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Nil Amicitia Gratius. 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 Pulex et Homo, the story of a man who shows no mercy to fleas!
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Cervus et Amici Eius, the sad story of a stag whose friends might as well be enemies (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: Ἄλλοι κάμον, ἄλλοι δ᾽ ὤναντο. Alii laborabant, alii autem fruebantur. Some did the work, but others got the profit.
