HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem tertium decimum Kalendas Ianuarias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Alcestis Taking the Place of Admetus, and there are more images here.
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TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word motto is Mens immota manet (English: My mind remains unmoved).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word proverb is Medice, cura teipsum (English: Physician, heal yourself).
RHYMING PROVERBS: Today's proverb with rhyme is: Saepe etiam stultus fuit opportuna locutus (English: Often even the fool has said something to the point).
VULGATE VERSES: Today's verse is Comede in laetitia panem tuum et bibe cum gaudio vinum tuum (Ecc. 9:7). For a translation, check out the polyglot Bible, in English, Hebrew, Latin and Greek, at the Sacred Texts Archive online.
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Auctores Veteres et Recentes. Click here for a full-sized view.
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And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
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In tenebris salto.
I take a leap in the shadows.
Quo altior gradus, tanto profundior casus.
The higher the station, the greater the fall.
TODAY'S FABLES:
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Tubicen Captus., the story of a noncombatant.
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Membra et Venter, the famous fable of the revolt against the stomach (this fable has a vocabulary list).
Gaudium Mundo. Today's holiday song is O Parve Vice Bethlehem, a.k.a. "O Little Town of Bethlehem," rendered into Latin several different ways.
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