HODIE (Roman Calendar): Nonae Septembres, the Nones of September.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows The Flight of Aeneas; you can also see the legends for the current week listed together here. Yes, Aeneas and his family were war refugees...
TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word motto is Suum cuique tribue (English: Assign to each his own).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word proverb is Cito arescit lacrima (English: A tear dries quickly).
RHYMING PROVERBS: Today's proverb with rhyme is: Multo deliro, si cuique placere requiro (English: I've got to be completely crazy if I seek to please everyone).
VULGATE VERSES: Today's verse is Omnis caro faenum et omnis gloria eius quasi flos agri (Isaiah 40:6). 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: Cor ne edito: Do not torment thie mynde with care and heavynes. It was one of Pithagoras counsayles.
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is In Simulate Loquentem. Click here for a full-sized view.
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
Aedes sine libris similis corpori sine spiritu.
A house without books is like a body without a soul.
Ad astra!
To the stars!
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Milvus Aegrotans, a story about deathbed repentance in the animal world (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Feles et Venus, a hilarious little story about a man who fell in love with a cat.
Growth Mindset Memes. For more about this growth cat, see this blog post: Crescit sub pondere virtus. I've been having a great time with the "growth mindset" project in my class; you can see lots of English-language growth mindset cats at the blog too.
