HODIE (Roman Calendar): Kalendae Augustae, the Kalends of August.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows The Labyrinth; 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 Meliora spero sequorque (English: I hope for and pursue better things).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word proverb is Stet fortuna domus (English: May this house be fortunate).
RHYMING PROVERBS: Today's proverb with rhyme is: Parce gaudebis, nam post tua gaudia flebis (English: You will rejoice sparingly, for after your joys you will weep).
VULGATE VERSES: Today's verse is Mane semina sementem tuam et vespere ne cesset manus tua (Ecc. 11:6). 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: Nil recrastines: Delay not thie matters, but spede the while the time serveth, when the sunne shineth make haye.
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Vivo Ut Moriar. 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 Sol et Ventus, a story about being warm-hearted (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Puer et Paedagogus, the story of a very UN-helpful teacher.
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: εὖρον αὐτὸν ἐν μέσῳ τῶν διδασκάλων. Invenerunt illum in medio doctorum. They found him in the midst of the doctors.
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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 Stories from Virgil by Alfred Church; 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.