HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem quintum decimum Kalendas Maias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Arachne, 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 In libris libertas (English: In books, freedom).
ANIMAL PROVERBS: Today's animal proverb is Perdimus anguillam dum manibus stringimus illam (English: We lose the eel when we squeeze it with our hands).
POLYDORUS: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Qui ambulat in tenebris, nescit quo vadat (English: He who walks in the shadows knows not where he goes).
GREEK PROVERBS: Today's proverb is Κακὸν δῶρον ἴσον ζημία (English: A bad gift is equivalent to a loss).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Lex et Iustitia. Click here for a full-sized view.
![](http://widgets.bestmoodle.net/images/brevissima/brev0192.jpg)
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
![](http://widgets.bestmoodle.net/images/lolcat/amorcaecus.jpg)
![](http://widgets.bestmoodle.net/images/lolcat/faciammeomodo.jpg)
Amor caecus.
Love is blind.
Faciam meo modo.
I will do it in my way.
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Ciconia et Uxor Eius, a sobering story of domestic violence (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Cicada et Noctua, a story about a noisy neighbor.
![Noctua et Cicada](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4136/4912121216_2464d43d05.jpg)
Greek Bible Art - and Latin and English, too. Below is one of my Greek Bible Art graphics; for the individual Greek, Latin and English versions of the graphic, see the blog post: ἐποίησεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν ἄνθρωπον κατ᾽ εἰκόνα θεοῦ. Creavit Deus hominem ad imaginem suam. God created man in his own image.
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