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HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem quintum Kalendas Iulias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Pentheus, and there are more images here.
TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
TINY MOTTOES: Today's tiny motto is: Semper pertinax (English: Always persevering).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is Dura usu molliora (English: Hard things become softer with use)
AUDIO PROVERBS: Today's audio Latin proverb is Omnis est rex in domo sua (English: Each man is king in his own home). To read a brief essay about this proverb and to listen to the audio, visit the Latin Via Proverbs blog.
ERASMUS' ANIMALS: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is Mus non ingrediens antrum, cucurbitam ferebat (English: The mouse couldn't get into its hole because it was carrying a pumpkin; from Adagia 3.3.79).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Non Vivo ut Edam. Click here for a full-sized view.
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
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Spes alit et fallit.
Hope feeds and misleads.
Longae regum manus.
Long are the hands of kings.
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Mors et Senex, in which Death catches a man unawares (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Vitis et Hircus, which features a talking vine, with English versions here from my summer Aesop project.
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Words from Mythology. For more about the Greek character Mentor and modern mentoring, see this blog post.
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