HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem tertium Kalendas Februarias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Medea and the Daughters of Pelias, and there are more images here.
TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word motto is Virtus vincit invidiam (English: Excellence overcomes envy).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word proverb is Dicendo dicere discimus (English: We learn to speak by speaking).
RHYMING PROVERBS: Today's proverb with rhyme is: Non valet inceptus, fuerit nisi finis adeptus (English: The beginning means nothing unless the end is reached).
VULGATE VERSES: Today's verse is Omnes vos fratres estis (Matt. 23:8). 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 Apologia Fortunae. Click here for a full-sized view.
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
Summum cape et medium habebis.
Grab the top and you'll have the middle.
Altiora pete.
Seek higher things.
TODAY'S FABLES:
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Herinacei et Viperae, a fable about how no good deed goes unpunished.
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Tigris et Venatores, the sad story of the tiger momma (this fable has a vocabulary list).
Alchemical Latin Reader. Below you will find an alchemical poster from the Tabula Smaragdina, and for detailed information about the Latin, see this blog post: Quod est inferius est sicut quod est superius.
