HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem tertium decimum Kalendas Martias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows The Abduction of Persephone; 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 Dum potes vive (English: Live while you are able).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word proverb is Doce ut discas (English: Teach so that you can learn).
RHYMING PROVERBS: Today's proverb with rhyme is: umquam caelesti Domino placuere scelesti (English: Our Heavenly Lord has never liked evil-doers).
VULGATE VERSES: Today's verse is Pecuniae oboedient omnia (Ecc. 10:19). 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: Vulpes non iterum capitur laqueo: The foxe is not eftesons taken in a snare. He that wise is, will not the seconde time stomble at the same stone.
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Volo Nolo. Click here for a full-sized view. I'm sharing these with English translations at Google+ now too.
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
Fames optimus coquus.
Hunger is the best cook.
Post tenebras spero lucem.
After the darkness, I hope for light.
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Minerva et Naufragus, a wonderful fable about Athena and an Athenian (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Asini Spongiis et Sale Onusti, a story about a donkey with faulty logic.
GreekLOLz - and Latin and English, too. Below is one of my GreekLOLz; for the individual Greek, Latin and English versions of the graphic, see the blog post: Αἴολος ἀνὴρ εἰς βόθρον ἐμπεσεῖται. Vir subdolus in foveam incidet. The sly man will fall into the pitfall.
