HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem sextum Idus Novembres.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Cleopatra, and there are more images 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 Ne quid falsi (English: Not anything false ... alas, this was certainly not the motto of this election season).
ANIMAL PROVERBS: Today's animal proverb is Ex verbis fatuos, ex aure tenemus asellos (English: We grasp donkeys by the ear, and fools by their words).
POLYDORUS: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Pullus de nido avolat (English: The chick flies away from the nest).
PROPER NAME PROVERBS: Today's proper name proverb from Erasmus is Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus (English: Without Ceres and Bacchus, i.e. without bread and wine, Venus, i.e. love, grows cold; from Adagia 2.3.97).
GREEK PROVERBS: Today's proverb is Μισῶ μνάμονα συμπόταν (English: I loathe a drinking buddy with a good memory).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Fatum Venturum. Click here for a full-sized view.
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
Cotidie multatur, qui semper timet.
If you are always afraid, you pay the price of fear every day.
O pessimum periclum, quod opertum latet!
O worst possible danger, which lurks in hiding!
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Pulex et Abbas, a funny story about a sneaky insect (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Passer, Lepus, et Aquila, a fable with a karma message.
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: Ἕμπροσθεν κρημνὸς, ὄπισθεν λύκοι. A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi. A cliff ahead, wolves behind.
