HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem quintum Idus Novembres.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows The Origin of the Milky Way; 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: Meliora supersunt (English: The better things survive).
3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word verb-less motto is Ne quid nimis (English: Not anything in excess).
ANIMAL PROVERBS: Today's animal proverb is Ex verbis fatuos, ex aure tenemus asellos (English: We grasp donkeys by the ear, and fools by their words).
POLYDORUS: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Homo ad laborem nascitur (English: Man is born to labor).
PROPER NAME PROVERBS: Today's proper name proverb from Erasmus is Phani ostium (English: Phanus's door; from Adagia 2.7.70 - Phanus was a blind man who made sure his door creaked so no one could sneak in, but his wife's lover simply entered the house by climbing up on the roof).
GREEK PROVERBS: Today's proverb is Χαλεπὸν τὸ ἑαυτὸν γνῶναι (English: It is a difficult thing to know oneself).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is In Domo Parva. Click here for a full-sized view.
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
Nos duo turba sumus.
We two are a crowd.
Dulce otium.
Leisure is sweet.
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Pulex et Abbas, the story of a perfidious insect (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Catus et Gallus, a story about a rooster who thinks he can reason with a cat... WRONG.
Latin Fables Read by Justin Slocum Bailey. Here is today's audio fable: Leonis Filius et Homo, with links to the audio and to the blog post.
