HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem septimum Idus Novembres.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Heracles and Eurystheus; 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: Maiora sequor (English: I follow greater things).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is In varietate voluptas (English: There is a pleasure in variety).
AUDIO PROVERBS: Today's audio Latin proverb is Non mare transisset, pavidus si nauta fuisset (English: The sailor would not have crossed the sea, if he had been afraid). 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: Improbe Neptunum accusat, qui iterum naufragium facit (English: It's dishonest to blame Neptune for the second shipwreck).
ERASMUS' ANIMALS: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is Asinus portans mysteria (English: The donkey carrying the icons; from Adagia 2.2.4 - an allusion to the Aesop's fable).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Magnus Timet. Click here for a full-sized view.
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
Oderint, dum metuant.
Let them hate, so long as they fear.
Iratum noli stimulare.
Do not provoke someone who is angry.
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Mus, Feles, et Gallus, a great story about how appearances can be deceiving (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Vulpes et Vermiculus, a "physician, heal thyself" fable.
Latin Fables Read by Justin Slocum Bailey. Here is today's audio fable: Leaena et Sus, with links to the audio and to the blog post.
