HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem nonum Kalendas Septembres.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Odysseus and Circe; 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: Errando discitur (English: Learning comes through mistakes).
3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word verb-less motto is Nec devius unquam (English: Not ever swerving).
ANIMAL PROVERBS: Today's animal proverb is Quaelibet vulpes caudam suam laudat (English: Every fox praises its own tail).
POLYDORUS: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Desine iam demens saevum stimulare leonem (English: Stop madly stirring up the savage lion).
PROPER NAME PROVERBS: Today's proper name proverb from Erasmus is Mylus omnia audiens (English: Mylus listening to everything; from Adagia 2.7.52 - This refers to someone who pretends to be deaf or not listening, but who is actually listening to everything).
GREEK PROVERBS: Today's proverb is Πολλοὶ βουκένται, παῦροι δὲ τε γῆς ἀροτῆρες (English: Many are those who goad the oxen, but few are those who plough the earth).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Utere Ne Videaris Abuti. Click here for a full-sized view.
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
Animus omnia vincit.
Courage conquers all things.
Discere si vultis, prodest sapientia multis.
If you want to learn, wisdom has many benefits / benefits many.
TODAY'S FABLES:
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Mures et Feles, Proeliantes, a story about self-important mice.
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Satyrus et Viator, a story of the satyr in winter (this fable has a vocabulary list).
Greek Bible Art - and Latin and English, too. Below is one of my Greek Bible Art graphics; for the individual Greek, Latin and English versions of the graphic, see the blog post: ἡ κεφαλὴ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐπ᾽ αὐτῷ. Caput eius non est in illo. His head was taken from him.
