HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem quartum Kalendas Ianuarias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows The Flight of Aeneas, and there are more images here.
![](http://widgets.bestmoodle.net/images/mythimages/FlightAeneasTroy.jpg)
TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word verb-less motto is Nihil sine labore (English: Nothing without hard work).
ANIMAL PROVERBS: Today's animal proverb is Camelus, cupiens cornua, aures perdidit (English: The camel, hoping for horns, lost its ears).
POLYDORUS: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Omnia probate, quod bonum est, tenete (English: Try all things; what is good, keep).
GREEK PROVERBS: Today's proverb is Ὀῖκος φίλος οἶκος ἄριστος (English: Dear house, best house... something like our "east or west, home is best").
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Nil Magis Nostrum Est Quam Tempus. Click here for a full-sized view.
![](http://widgets.bestmoodle.net/images/brevissima/brev0133.jpg)
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
![](http://widgets.bestmoodle.net/images/lolcat/luxumbradeiest.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAmns6-9JRrP-G-oetY0V9tH5tzv4dG6PNkXblklWc_g4eJyxxXN3dDSc-4bN5KTv6UiEwMFxU8WF0x3PK8RPdS_YtqPwBGnJygXng1E9fefU4HUo94sWdlDPSOqZGM8QRei2x0LK8WscW/s1600/sancti.jpg)
Lux umbra dei est.
Light is God's shadow.
Non omnes sancti qui calcant limina templi.
Not all are holy who tread the temple's threshold.
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Haedus et Lupus Fores Pulsans, a "home alone" fable (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Vespertilio Perfidus, the story of the ambiguous bat.
![quadrupedes et aves](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4077/4909579646_68eef69afb.jpg)
And there is also a new Latin LOLBaby: Sic itur ad astra!