HODIE (Roman Calendar): Kalendae Novembres, the Kalends of November!
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Heracles and Antaeus; 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: Diligamus invicem (English: Let us love one another).
3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word verb-less motto is Post nubila Phoebus (English: After the clouds, the sun).
ANIMAL PROVERBS: Today's animal proverb is Simia est simia, etiamsi purpura vestiatur (English: A monkey is a monkey, even if it's dressed in purple).
POLYDORUS: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Dei facientes adiuvant (English: The gods help those who are doers, i.e. The gods help them that help themselves).
PROPER NAME PROVERBS: Today's proper name proverb from Erasmus is Ne Iupiter quidem omnibus placet (English: Not even Jupiter can please everybody; from Adagia 2.7.55).
GREEK PROVERBS: Today's proverb is Χρὴ μὴ τὸ κακὸν διὰ κακὸν ἀμύνασθαι (English: It is not right to avenge evil with evil).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Damnum Alterius. Click here for a full-sized view.
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
Spe exspecto.
I wait in hope.
Una in sede morantur pax et amor.
Peace and love abide in one place.
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Leo et Tauri Duo, a story of "divide and conquer" (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Struthiocamelus et Gallina, the sad story of the ostrich who wanted to fly.
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: ἐδίψησεν δὲ ἐκεῖ ὁ λαὸς ὕδατι. Sitivit ibi populus prae aquae penuria. And the people thirsted there for water.
