HODIE (Roman Calendar): pridie Idus Decembres, the day before the Ides of December.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Diomedes and Glaucus; you can also see the legends for the current week listed together here.
TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word motto is Fac aut tace (English: Do, or be silent).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word proverb is Quod periit, periit (English: What has perished has perished).
RHYMING PROVERBS: Today's proverb with rhyme is: Laudatur nummus, quasi rex super omnia summus (English: Cash is praised as if it were the greatest king of all things).
VULGATE VERSES: Today's verse is Stultus, cum ipse insipiens sit, omnes stultos aestimat (Ecc. 10:3). For a translation, check out the polyglot Bible, in English, Hebrew, Latin and Greek, at the Sacred Texts Archive online.
ELIZABETHAN PROVERBS: Here is today's proverb commentary, this time by Taverner: Domum cum facis ne relinquas impolitam: When thou makest an house leave it not unfinished. By this we be bidden, that what so ever matter or affayres wee once beginne, wee bryng the same to a perfecte and full ende.
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Mors et Amor. Click here for a full-sized view.
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
Utere hora non reditura.
Use the moment; it will not come again.
Vultus in hostem.
Face your enemy.
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Mus in Cista Natus, the story of a mouse who broadens its horizons (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Testudo et Iuppiter, the story of Jupiter's wedding and a late wedding guest.
TODAY'S LATIN HOLIDAY SONGS
The Latin holiday songs for today are: Dum Servant Pecus Pastores, a Latin version of "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night," along with De natali Christi, a Latin version of the Polish carol, "Z narodzenia Pana." You can find more at the Gaudium Mundo blog.
