HODIE: ante diem octavum Idus Novembres.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Heracles and Eurystheus; you can also see the legends for the current week listed together here.
TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
TINY PROVERBS: Today's tiny proverb is: Meliora supersunt (English: The better things survive).
3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word verb-less motto is Volenti nil difficile (English: For one who is willing, nothing is difficult).
ANIMAL PROVERBS: Today's animal proverb is Disparibus bubus numquam trahitur bene currus (English: The cart is never pulled well when the oxen do not match).
POLYDORUS: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: eritas liberabit (English: The truth will set you free).
PROPER NAME PROVERBS: Today's proper name proverb from Erasmus is Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus (English: Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus grows cold; from Adagia 2.3.97 - in other words, without bread and wine, love grows cold).
GREEK PROVERBS: Today's proverb is Ὦ ὁῖα κεφαλὴ, καὶ ἐγκέφαλον οὐκ ἔχει (English: O such a head, and yet it has not brains - this being the punchline to the Aesop's fable about the animal - sometimes a fox, sometimes a wolf - and the mask).
BREVISSIMA: The distich for today is Tempus Tuum: Res est una, tuam possis quam dicere: tempus. / Utere! Dum cessas, desinit esse tuum.
And here is today's proverbial lolcat:
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Aquila et Mus, the sad story of a mouse and an ungrateful eagle (this fable has a vocabulary list).
AESOP IN ENGLISH VERSE: Today's fable from the English verse widget is Hercules and The Waggoner, a story of how the gods help them that help themselves.
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Muli et Latrones, a wonderful story in favor of the simple life.
