HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem quartum Nonas Augustas.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows The Labyrinth; 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: Ferendo feram (English: By bearing up, I will bear it).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is Ex unguibus leonem (English: You know the lion by his claws).
AUDIO PROVERBS: Today's audio Latin proverb is Manus digiti coaequales non sunt, omnes tamen usui (English: The fingers of the hand are not equal, but all are useful). 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: Quam miserum est, ubi consilium casu vincitur! (English: How wretched it is when a good plan is defeated by chance!).
ERASMUS' ANIMALS: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is Plaustrum bovem trahit (English: The cart is pulling the ox; from Adagia 1.7.28 - or, as we would say, the cart's before the horse!).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Non Omnibus Credas. 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 Talpa et Olitor, in which the gardener shows the mole no mercy (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Anguis et Milvus, a story of predatory karma.
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: Ἀεὶ γεωργὸς εἰς νέωτα πλούσιος. Agricola semper in futurum dives est. The farmer is ever wealthy next year.
