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.
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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.
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And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
![](http://widgets.bestmoodle.net/images/lolcat/libroslegequaelegerismemento.jpg)
![](http://widgets.bestmoodle.net/images/lolcat/posttenebraslus.jpg)
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.
![](https://widgets.lauragibbs.net/aesop/phaedrus1667/phaedriaugustica00phae_0287.jpg)
From a 1701 Phaedrus:
![](https://widgets.lauragibbs.net/aesop/phaedrus1701/318.jpg)
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.
![](https://widgets.lauragibbs.net/aesop/steinhowel/colored/leo-et-pastor_4908982051_o.png)
From a 1485 Aesop:
![](https://widgets.lauragibbs.net/aesop/amvenezia1485/AMVenezia1485_41_leone_et_pastore.png)