HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem quintum decimum Kalendas Februarias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Antigone; 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 Spes audaces adiuvat (English: Hope helps the bold).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word proverb is Asinus portat mysteria (English: The donkey is carrying the icons, an allusion to the marvelous Aesop's fable).
RHYMING PROVERBS: Today's proverb with rhyme is: Ex verbis fatuos, ex aure tenemus asellos (English: We grasp donkeys by the ear, and fools by their words).
VULGATE VERSES: Today's verse is Qui accipit mutuum, servus est fenerantis (Proverbs 22:7). 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: Stultus stulta loquitur: A foole speaketh foolish thinges. And as our Englishe Proverbe saithe: A fooles bolt is soone shotte, whereas the wise man speaketh seldom and wittelie.
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Intentus in Unum. Click here for a full-sized view.
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
TODAY'S FABLES:
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Iuppiter et Olitoris Asinus, the story of a donkey who is understandably unhappy with his lot in life.
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Asinus et Grammaticus, a delightful story about a donkey who goes to school (this fable has a vocabulary list).
Greek Bible Art - and Latin and English, too. Below is one of my Greek Bible Art graphics; for the individual Greek, Latin and English versions of the graphic, see the blog post: ὁ κύριος εἶπεν τῷ Ιωβ ἐκ τοῦ νέφους. Respondens Dominus Job de turbine dixit. Then answered the Lord unto Job out of the whirlwind.
