HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem quintum Idus Martias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Nisus and Euryalus, and there are more images here.
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TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word verb-less motto is Pax optima rerum (English: Peace is the best of things).
ANIMAL PROVERBS: Today's animal proverb is Asinus magis stramina vult quam aurum (English: The donkey wants straw more than gold).
POLYDORUS: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Scriba doctus profert de thesauro suo nova et vetera (English: The scribe brings forth from his storehouse new things and old).
GREEK PROVERBS: Today's proverb is Τὸ σιγᾶν τὴν ἀλήθειαν χρυσόν ἐστι θάπτειν (English: To keep the truth silent is to bury gold in the ground).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Velle Tuum Meum Est. Click here for a full-sized view.
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And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
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![](http://widgets.bestmoodle.net/images/lolcat/crescitscribendoscribendistudium.jpg)
Aliud est velle, aliud posse.
Wanting is one thing; being able to do it is another.
Crescit scribendo scribendi studium.
A zeal for writing grows by writing.
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Bos Fimum Evehens, a funny little fable about cleaning up after yourself (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Asinus et Tympana, the story of a long-suffering donkey.
![negotiator et asinus](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4139/4909582534_259fed5fee.jpg)
Growth Mindset Memes. For more about this growth cat, see this blog post. Altius tendo. I will go higher.
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