HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem duodecimum Kalendas Maias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows The Sabine Women Making Peace, and there are more images here.
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TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word motto is Meo contentus sum (English: I am content with what I have).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word proverb is Litteris absentes videmus (English: We see people who are absent through letters).
RHYMING PROVERBS: Today's proverb with rhyme is: Pomum compunctum cito corrumpit sibi iunctum (English: A bruised fruit quickly spoils the fruit next to it).
VULGATE VERSES: Today's verse is Aquae furtivae dulciores sunt, et panis absconditus suavior (Proverbs 9:17). 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 Iustum Petito. Click here for a full-sized view.
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And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
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Ito bonis avibus.
Go with good omens.
O fallax rerum copia!
O the deceitful abundance of things!
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Iuppiter et Apollo , a fable about the Olympian gods (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Ursae Catuli et Leaena, a fable about bear cubs being "licked into shape."
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Freebookapalooza: Classics. Here is today's free book online: Old Greek Nature Stories by F. A. Farrar.
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