HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem octavum Kalendas Iulias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Castor and Pollux; you can also see the legends for the current week listed together here.
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TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
TINY MOTTOES: Today's tiny motto is: Resurgam (English: I shall rise again).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is Dura usu molliora (English: Hard things become softer with use)
AUDIO PROVERBS: Today's audio Latin proverb is Nemo nisi sapiens liber est (English: No one, unless he is wise, is free). 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: Pecunia una regimen est rerum omnium (English: Money alone is the ruling principle of all things).
ERASMUS' ANIMALS: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is Mus non ingrediens antrum, cucurbitam ferebat (English: The mouse couldn't get into its hole because it was carrying a pumpkin; from Adagia 3.3.79).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Poenam Tandem Ferunt. Click here for a full-sized view.
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And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
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TODAY'S FABLES:
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Simia et Piscatores, a story of "monkey-see, monkey-do."
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Gallus et Ancillae, a funny little fable about unintended consequences (this fable has a vocabulary list).
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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: Ἐλεύθεραι αἶγες ἀρότρων. Liberae sunt caprae ab aratris. The goats are free from the plow.
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