HODIE (Roman Calendar): pridie Kalendas Iunias, the day before the Kalends of June.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Clytie ; 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: Unitate fortior (English: Stronger through union).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is Sua cuique vitia (English: Each person has their own vices)
AUDIO PROVERBS: Today's audio Latin proverb is Cancri numquam recte ingrediuntur (English: Crabs never walk straight). 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: Nusquam melius morimur homines, quam ubi libenter viximus (English: People can never have a better death than when they have lived as they wished).
ERASMUS' ANIMALS: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is Asinus asino et sus sui pulcher (English: One donkey thinks another is lovely, as one pig does another; from Adagia 4.10.64).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Legisse Parum Est. 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 Pulex, Homo, et Hercules, a funny little story about a man beaten by a flea and the plea he makes to Hercules (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Milvus Aegrotans, the story of a kite's deathbed repentence.
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: πνεῦμα ἅγιον ἐπελεύσεται ἐπὶ σέ. Spiritus Sanctus superveniet in te. The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee.
