HODIE (Roman Calendar): pridie Nonas Apriles.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows The Seven Against Thebes, and there are more images here.
TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word motto is Vince malum patientia (English: Conquer evil with patience).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word proverb is Abluit manus manum (English: One hand washes another).
RHYMING PROVERBS: Today's proverb with rhyme is: Ex frixis pullus ovis nunquam venit ullus (English: No chicken ever comes from fried eggs).
VULGATE VERSES: Today's verse is Beati qui esuriunt et sitiunt iustitiam, quoniam ipsi saturabuntur (Matt. 5:6). 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 Virtus Immortalis. Click here for a full-sized view.
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
Fac hodie: fugit haec non reditura dies.
Do it today: this day runs away, not to return.
Post tenebras spero lucem.
After the darkness, I hope for light.
TODAY'S FABLES:
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Vulpes et Uva, the famous story of the supposedly sour grapes.
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Leo Iratus et Puteus, in which anger is a lion's undoing (this fable has a vocabulary list).
GreekLOLz - and Latin and English, too. Below is one of my GreekLOLz; for the individual Greek, Latin and English versions of the graphic, see the blog post: Ἐλέφαντα ἐκ μυίας ποιεῖς. Elephantem ex musca facis. You're making an elephant out of a fly.
