HODIE: ante diem septimum Kalendas Octobres.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Odysseus and the Sirens; 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 Labor omnia vincit (English: Hard work overcomes all things - the state motto of Oklahoma!).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word proverb is Tempus omnia revelat (English: Time reveals all things).
RHYMING PROVERBS: Today's proverb with rhyme is: Ebibe vas totum, si vis cognoscoere potum (English: Drain the whole cup, if you want to know the drink).
VULGATE VERSES: Today's verse is Unus interitus est hominis et iumentorum (Ecc. 3:19). 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 Conybeare: Dictum ac factum: Is a proverbe signifienge all mannes diligence and laboure necessarie to the doynge or bringinge to pass of any thinge. Donatus sayeth Dictum ac factum to be a proverbiall speakinge, betokeninge celeritie and spede yn doinge or dispatchinge of a thinge.
BREVISSIMA: The distich for today is Lingua Una, Aures Duae: Ut nos pauca loqui, plura autem audire moneret, / Linguam unam natura, duas dedit omnibus aures
And here is today's proverbial lolcat:
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Canis et Umbra, the story of the greedy dog who was fooled by his own reflection (this fable has a vocabulary list).
AESOP IN ENGLISH VERSE: Today's fable from the English verse widget is The Deer and The Lion, an "out of the frying pan, into the fire" type of story!
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Ovis et Canis Calumniosus, the sad story of the sheep who was condemned based on the testimony of false witnesses.
