HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem sextum decimum Kalendas Iunias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows The Slain Patroclus; you can also see the legends for the current week listed together here.
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TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
TINY MOTTOES: Today's tiny motto is: Semper vigilans (English: Ever watchful).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is Omne futurum incertum (English: Every future thing is uncertain)
AUDIO PROVERBS: Today's audio Latin proverb is Nemo cum sarcinis enatat (English: No one swims away with his bundles). 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: Avarus damno potius quam sapiens dolet (English: The miser grieves over a loss more than the wise man does).
ERASMUS' ANIMALS: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is Equo senescenti minora admove (English: Load less on the old horse; from Adagia 2.8.52).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Hora Mortis Incerta. Click here for a full-sized view. I'm sharing these with English translations at Google+ now too.
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And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
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Longa via est: propera.
The way is long: hurry.
In libris libertas.
In books there is freedom.
TODAY'S FABLES:
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Viatores Duo et Latro, a story of friendship on trial.
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Sanctus Petrus et Rusticus, a Christian version of the famous fable about Hercules and the man with a cart (this fable has a vocabulary list).
Words from Mythology. For more about CHAOS and Greek χάος, see this blog post.
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