HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem nonum Kalendas Februarias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows The Flight of Aeneas, and there are more images here.
TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
TINY MOTTOES: Today's tiny motto is: Veritas superabit (English: The truth will triumph).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is Scientia sol mentis (English: Knowledge is the sun of the mind)
AUDIO PROVERBS: Today's audio Latin proverb is Optimus magister bonus liber (English: The best teacher is a good book). To read a brief essay about this proverb and to listen to the audio, visit the Latin Via Proverbs blog.
ERASMUS' ANIMALS: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is Ars multa vulpi, ast una echino maxima (English: The fox has many a trick, but the hedgehog has just one big trick; from Adagia 1.5.18; see Wikipedia for more about this proverbial animal pair).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Nosce Teipsum. Click here for a full-sized view.
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
Libros lege; quae legeris, memento.
Read books; what you read, remember.
Post tenebras, lux.
After the darkness, light.
TODAY'S FABLES:
PHAEDRI FABULAE: The illustrated fable from Phaedrus for today is Pavo ad Iunonem, a story about being who you are, and not someone else: Latin text and Smart's translation.
From a 1701 Phaedrus:
STEINHOWEL: The illustrated fable from Steinhowel for today is De leone et pastore , a story often known by the title of Androcles and the Lion: Latin text and English versions.
From a 1485 Aesop:
