HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem undevicesimum Kalendas Septembres.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Odysseus and Circe; 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: Impavide (English: Fearlessly).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is Melior sapientia fortitudine (English: Wisdom is better than strength)
AUDIO PROVERBS: Today's audio Latin proverb is Amici nec multi nec nulli (English: Friends — not many, not none). 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: Satis est beatus, qui potest, cum vult, mori (English: A man is lucky enough if he can die when he wants).
ERASMUS' ANIMALS: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus (English: The lazy ox wants to wear horse-trappings; the horse wants to plow; from Adagia 1.6.71 - a proverb for topsy-turvy times).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Cito Factum, Gratum. 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 Sus Parturiens et Lupus, the story of a wolf's unwelcome offer of help (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Haedus in Tecto et Lupus, another story about a wolf, and this time the wolf gets the last word.
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: Ἀετὸς μυίας οὐ θηρεύει. Aquila non venatur muscas. An eagle doesn't hunt flies.
