HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem tertium Kalendas Martias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Hylas and the Nymphs; you can also see the legends for the current week listed together here.
TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
TINY MOTTOES: Today's tiny motto is: Finem prospiciens (English: With an eye on the goal).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is Nil homini certum (English: For man, nothing is certain).
AUDIO PROVERBS: Today's audio Latin proverb is Labor gloriae pater (English: Hard work is the father of fame). To read a brief essay about this proverb and to listen to the audio, visit the Latin Via Proverbs blog.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS: Today's proverb from Publilius Syrus is: Non novit virtus calamitati cedere (English: Courage does not know how to yield to disaster).
ERASMUS' ANIMALS: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is Asinus balneatoris (English: The bathkeeper's donkey; from Adagia 4.4.50 — this proverbial donkey brings the water for other people's baths, but he never gets to enjoy a bath himself).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Tempora Praetereunt. Click here for a full-sized view. I'm sharing these with English translations at Google+ now too. See the sundial below for a similar sentiment but with a different metaphor! Not "more fluentis aquae" but "quasi umbra."
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
Dulce otium.
Leisure is sweet.
Nos duo turba sumus.
We two are a crowd.
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Pisciculus et Piscator, a story about a bird in the hand... except it's a fish (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Cantus Sacerdotis, a hilarious medieval fable about a dear departed donkey.
Latin Sundials. Below you will find an image of a sundial, and for detailed information about the Latin motto see this blog post: Dies nostri quasi umbra super terram et nulla est mora. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
