HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem quartum decimum Kalendas Iunias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Perseus Rescuing Andromeda; 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: Semper vigilans (English: Always watchful).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is Vitae sal amicitia (English: Friendship is the salt of life)
AUDIO PROVERBS: Today's audio Latin proverb is Nascimur uno modo, multis morimur (English: We are born one way, we die in many). 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: Avarus damno potius quam sapiens dolet (English: The miser grieves over a loss more than the wise man does).
ERASMUS' ANIMALS: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is Ipsi testudines edite, qui cepistis (English: You who caught the turtles better eat them; from Adagia 1.1.87 - the proverb alludes to the story of Mercury and the fishermen).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Quae Scis, Non Dicas. Click here for a full-sized view; the poem has a vocabulary list and an English translation, too.
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
TODAY'S FABLES:
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Pastor et Lupus Familiaris, the story of a shepherd who foolishly trusted a wolf.
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Castor et Venator, the story of a very desperate beaver (this fable has a vocabulary list).
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: Ἀγροίκου μὴ καταφρόνει ῥήτορος. Agrestem ne contemnas oratorem. Do not scorn a backwoods speaker. (Such as Daniel Boone!)
