HODIE (Roman Calendar): antediem octavum Idus Ianuarias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Odysseus and the Suitors; 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 Florebo quocumque ferar (English: I will flourish wherever I end up).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word proverb is Cavendo tutus eris (English: By being cautious you will be safe).
RHYMING PROVERBS: Today's proverb with rhyme is: Stat scelus occultum, sed non remanebit inultum (English: A crime can be hidden, but it will not remain unavenged).
VULGATE VERSES: Today's verse is Dives difficile intrabit in regnum caelorum (Matt. 19:23). 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 Conybeare: Calvum vellis: Thou pluckest heare of a balde mannes heade, a proverbe where one woulde have a thinge of a man that he hath not, thou wouldest take a breeche from a bare arst man.
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Quod Paucis Orandus Deus. Click here for a full-sized view.
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
In nocte consilium
Plans take shape at night.
In vino veritas.
In wine, there is truth.
TODAY'S FABLES:
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Pica Loquax et Aquila, a fable about gossip in the bird world.
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Mus et Leonis Gratia, a fable of gratitude... but with an ending that may surprise you (this fable has a vocabulary list).
Latin Fables Read by Justin Slocum Bailey. Here is today's audio fable: Leo Senex, Vulpes, et Lupus, with links to the audio and to the blog post.
