HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem quartum Kalendas Octobres.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Penelope and Eurycleia; you can also see the legends for the current week listed together here.
TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
TINY PROVERBS: Today's tiny proverb is: Obsta principiis (English: Put a stop to things at the very start).
3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word verb-less motto is Factis, non verbis (English: By means of deeds, not words).
ANIMAL PROVERBS: Today's animal proverb is Porcellum alens, porcum habebis (English: Raising a piglet, you'll have a pig).
POLYDORUS: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Spiritus ubi vult spirat (English: The spirit blows where it will).
PROPER NAME PROVERBS: Today's proper name proverb from Erasmus is Semper aliquis in Cydonis domo (English: There's always someone in Cydon's house; from Adagia 2.2.15 - Cydon was a citizen of Corinth who was proverbial for his hospitality).
GREEK PROVERBS: Today's proverb is Ἄλλων ἰατρὸς, αὐτὸς ἕλκεσι βρύων (English: Wanting to be a doctor to others, he himself is bursting with sores).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Omnia Disce. 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 Mercurius, Homo, et Formicae, one of my favorite fables! It is about the ways of god, and of men (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Vespertilio, Rubus, et Mergus, one of the Aesopic aetiological stories!
Latin Sundials. Below you will find an image of a sundial, and for detailed information about the Latin motto see this blog post: Pereunt et Imputantur.
