HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem quintum Kalendas Augustas.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Prometheus Bound; 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: Passibus aequis (English: At an even pace).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is Post acerba prudentior (English: After bitter experiences, more wise)
AUDIO PROVERBS: Today's audio Latin proverb is Sic transit gloria mundi (English: Thus passes the glory of the world). To read a brief essay about this proverb and to listen to the audio, visit the Latin Via Proverbs blog... and see the distich poster below on a similar motif.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS: Today's proverb from Publilius Syrus is: In Venere semper certat dolor et gaudium (English: In Venus/love, grief and joy are always at odds).
ERASMUS' ANIMALS: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is Plaustrum bovem trahit (English: The cart is pulling the ox; from Adagia 1.7.28... like our "putting the cart before the horse").
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Aetas Praeterit. Click here for a full-sized view. I'm sharing these with English translations at Google+ now too.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9HcPPUipT9W6j7pbEnAICnl-FfS_jBO_4CIssWhF2pNAAnNqPKxKx_5UxnWXqdrCm1LcKv90RZgxncgOUmPH-X7bYHpAnbtBO7MiwvVfGeiWDgBqyz_MgpsUTef7vo-JF32_NqVwnjIJD/s400/aetas.jpg)
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
![](http://widgets.bestmoodle.net/images/lolcat/nulliinimicusero.jpg)
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Nulli inimicus ero.
I will be an enemy to no one.
Respice, adspice, prospice!
Look back, look front, look ahead!
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Camelus et Iuppiter, a fable about being careful what you wish for (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Verveces et Lanius, a fable for our times.
![verveces et lanius](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4140/4908987725_cb31faa80b.jpg)
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: Ἄλλοτε μητρυιὴ πέλει ἡμέρα, ἄλλοτε μήτηρ. Ipsa dies quandoque parens, quandoque noverca. Sometimes the day is your mother, sometimes your stepmother.
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