HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem nonum Kalendas Februarias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Neoptolemus and Priam; you can also see the legends for the current week listed together here.
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TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word motto is Vincam malum bono (English: I will overcome evil with good).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word proverb is Tempus omnia sanat (English: Time heals all things).
RHYMING PROVERBS: Today's proverb with rhyme is: Sunt tibi vitandi sermones undique blandi (English: You should always avoid flattering words).
VULGATE VERSES: Today's verse is Radix omnium malorum est cupiditas (I Tim. 6:10). 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: Ne Hercules quidem contra duos: Not Hercules against two, that is to saye: Though a man never so muche excelleth other in strengthe, yet it will be hard for him to matche two at ones. And one man may lawfully give place to a multitude.
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Tempus Tuum. Click here for a full-sized view.
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And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
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![](http://widgets.bestmoodle.net/images/lolcat/nilmeliuslaetamquamsemperducerevitam.jpg)
Vivamus atque amemus.
Let us live and let us love.
Nil melius laetam quam semper ducere vitam.
Nothing is better than to lead a happy life always.
(With medieval pronunciation, it rhymes!)
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Canis Vetulus et Magister, the sad story of a dog and his ungrateful master (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Cerva in Speluncam Fugiens, an "out of the frying pan, into the fire" fable.
![Cervus Venatores Fugiens et Leo](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4123/4925196470_0ccacc263b.jpg)
Latin Fables Read by Justin Slocum Bailey. Here is today's audio fable: Leo, Asinus, et Vulpes Perfida, with links to the audio and to the blog post.
![Asinus, Leo et Vulpes Perfida](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2479/3677120834_40b3fdac78.jpg)