HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem quartum decimum Kalendas Iulias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Hylas and the Nymphs ; 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: Nunquam obliviscar (English: I shall never forget).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is Comes festinationis paenitentia (English: Regret is the companion of hastiness)
AUDIO PROVERBS: Today's audio Latin proverb is Suus est mos cuique genti. (English: There is for each nation its own custom). 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: Nil magis amat cupiditas, quam quod non licet (English: Greed loves nothing more than what is not allowed).
ERASMUS' ANIMALS: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is Tunc canent cygni, cum tacebunt graculi (English: When the jackdaws fall silent, the swans will sing - which explains why swans are not in the habit of singing... the silly jackdaws are never quiet; from Adagia 3.3.97).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Peccata Non Teguntur. 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 Equus Circensis Molae Iugatus, the sad fate of an old race horse (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Musca et Calvus, in which a fly just doesn't know when enough is enough.
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: Ἐκ λύκου στόματος. Ex lupi ore abstulisti. Out of the wolf's mouth.
