HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem septimum Kalendas Novembres.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Athena and Poseidon; 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 Exitus acta probat (English: The outcome commends our actions).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word proverb is Alit lectio ingenium (English: Reading nourishes talent).
RHYMING PROVERBS: Today's proverb with rhyme is: Pelle sub agnina latitat mens saepe lupina (English: The mind of a wolf may often hide beneath the skin of a lamb).
VULGATE VERSES: Today's verse is Sapientia absconsa et thesaurus invisus: quae utilitas in utrisque? (Sirach 20:30). 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 Taverner: Nemo mortalium omnibus horis sapit: No man in the world is wise at al houres. It is only belonging to God and properly due unto him never to commit follie. There is, I say, no man, but otherwiles doteth, but is deceived, but plaieth the foole, though he seme never so wise. Whan I say man, I except not the woman.
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Ius Poli. Click here for a full-sized view.
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
Modum nescit ponere voluptas.
Pleasure knows not how to set limits.
Somnus est frater mortis.
Sleep is the brother of death.
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Asinus Leonis Pelle Indutus, the famous story of the donkey in the lion's skin (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Cancer et Serpens, a story about a crab who makes a crooked snake go straight, so to speak.
Latin Fables Read by Justin Slocum Bailey. Here is today's audio fable: Leo Rex et Regia Eius, with links to the audio and to the blog post.
