HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem quintum Idus Septembres.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Lykaon, and there are more images here.
TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
TINY MOTTOES: Today's tiny motto is: Perseveranti dabitur (English: To the one who perseveres, it will be given).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is Omnia possibilia credenti (English: All things are possible for one who believes)
AUDIO PROVERBS: Today's audio Latin proverb is Tangor, non frangor, ab undis (English: I am touched but not broken by the waves). 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: Cuivis dolori remedium est patientia (English: Patience is a remedy for any kind of grief).
ERASMUS' ANIMALS: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is Hydrus in dolio (English: There's a snake in the jar; from Adagia 3.10.98... The story goes that a man was puzzled by the way the wine level in a sealed jar kept going down, if no one was draining the wine from the outside. At the bottom of the jar there was a water-snake, and it had been drinking the wine.).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Fac Bene Dum Vivis. Click here for a full-sized view.
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
Altius tendo.
I strive to go higher.
Ut ameris, ama.
In order to be loved, you must love.
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Catus et Gallus , in which the cat is quite tyrannical (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Asinus Res Sacras Portans, the story of a self-important donkey.
Latin Fables Read by Justin Slocum Bailey. Here is today's audio fable: Vulpes et Uva, with links to the audio and to the blog post.
