HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem quartum decimum Kalendas Novembres.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Odysseus and the Sirens; you can also see the legends for the current week listed together here.
TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
TINY MOTTOES: Today's tiny motto is: Nil temere (English: Nothing rashly).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is Musica donum dei (English: Music is a gift of God).
AUDIO PROVERBS: Today's audio Latin proverb is Maximae divitiae non desiderare divitias (English: The greatest wealth is not to desire wealth). To read a brief essay about this proverb and to listen to the audio, visit the Latin Via Proverbs blog.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS: Today's proverb from Publilius Syrus is: Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur (English: To both love and be wise is hardly possible even for a god).
ERASMUS' ANIMALS: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is Qui inspuerit in agmen formicarum, huic intumescant labra (English: He who spits in the anthill gets swollen lips; from Adagia 4.6.80).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Laetamur Graviora Passi. Click here for a full-sized view.
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
Nemo sua sorte contentus vivit.
No one lives content with his lot in life.
Sine amicitia vita est nulla.
There is no life without friendship.
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Puer et Paedagogus, a story about a most unhelpful teacher (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Ranae et Taurorum Proelia, a story about how even lowly folk cannot ignore the quarrels of the high and mighty.
GreekLOLz - and Latin and English, too. Below is one of my GreekLOLz; for the individual Greek, Latin and English versions of the graphic, see the blog post: Αὐτὸς ἔφα. Ipse dixit. He himself said it.
