HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem tertium decimum Kalendas Martias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Penelope and the Suitors, and there are more images here.
TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
TINY PROVERBS: Today's tiny proverb is: Labore vinces (English: With hard work, you will triumph).
PUBLILIUS SYRUS: Today's proverb from Publilius Syrus is: Vultu an natura sapiens sis, multum interest (English: Being wise and looking wise are not the same thing at all).
PROPER NAME PROVERBS: Today's proper name proverb from Erasmus is Ulysseum commentum (English: A strategy worthy of Odysseus; from Adagia 2.8.79).
ELIZABETHAN PROVERBS: Here is today's proverb commentary, this time by Conybeare: Rem acu tetigisti: Thou hast hitte the nayle on the headde, thou hast hitte the verye matter..
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Qui Amat, Uritur. Click here for a full-sized view.
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
Volo, non valeo.
I want, but I am not able.
A deo rex, a rege lex.
From God, the king; from the king, the law.
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Feles et Venus, a story of metamorphosis (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Cervus et Cornua Eius, a fable about body image.
Latin Fables Read by Justin Slocum Bailey. Here is today's audio fable: Vulpes, Corvus et Gallus, with links to the audio and to the blog post.
