HODIE (Roman Calendar): pridie Kalendas Septembres.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Atlas and Heracles; you can also see the legends for the current week listed together here.
TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word motto is Laboranti numen adest (English: Divine power attends the man who works hard).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word proverb is Quae legeris, memento (English: What you read, remember).
RHYMING PROVERBS: Today's proverb with rhyme is: Regula certa datur: bene qui stat, ne moveatur (English: This rule is given as certain: if something is sitting pretty, don't move it).
VULGATE VERSES: Today's verse is Rex hodie est, et cras morietur (Sirach 10:10). For a translation, check out the polyglot Bible, in English, Hebrew, Latin and Greek, at the Sacred Texts Archive online.
ELIZABETHAN PROVERBS: Here is today's proverb commentary, this time by Conybeare: Equinae caudae pilos vellere: To plucke the heares of an horsse tayle. A proverbe spoken of hem that by litle and litle atchieveth that he coulde not doe immediatly altogeather.
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Tempus Volubile. Click here for a full-sized view; the poem has a vocabulary list and an English translation, too.
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Lupus et Pastor, Compatres, the story of a foolishman man who entrusted his sheep to the wolf (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Canis et Faber, the story of a dog and its very selective hearing.
Greek Bible Art - and Latin and English, too. Below is one of my Greek Bible Art graphics; for the individual Greek, Latin and English versions of the graphic, see the blog post: καὶ λαβὼν ποτήριον καὶ εὐχαριστήσας ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖς. Accipiens calicem, gratias egit et dedit illis. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them.
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Myth and Folklore Books. I'm accumulating some book recommendations for the classes I teach and wanted to share them here. Today's book is The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Platt; you can see the table of contents here. This is a free Amazon Kindle eBook, and you don't need a Kindle to read it - you can read Kindle books on any computer or mobile device, or you can use the Amazon Cloud Reader in your browser.