HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem septimum Idus Maias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Phaethon; 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: Semper liber (English: Always free).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is Difficile perspicere futura (English: It is difficult to discern the future)
AUDIO PROVERBS: Today's audio Latin proverb is Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses (English: If you had remained silent, you would have remained a philosopher). 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: Quicquid plus quam necesse est possideas, premit (English: Whatever you possess beyond what is necessary is a burden).
ERASMUS' ANIMALS: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is E squilla non nascitur rosa (English: A rose is not born from a shrimp; from Adagia 2.3.93).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Ad Parentes. 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:
Nosce te ipsum.
Know yourself.
Qui amat periculum, in illo peribit.
He who loves danger will perish in it.
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Mus, Feles, et Gallus, a story about how appearances can be deceiving (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Asinus Leonis Pelle Indutus, another story about deceptive appearances!
Latin Sundials. Below you will find an image of a sundial, and for detailed information about the Latin motto see this blog post: SOL LUCET OMNIBUS.
