HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem nonum Kalendas Novembres.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Arion; 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 Vive in diem (English: Live for the day).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word proverb is Quaerite et invenietis (English: Seek, and ye shall find).
RHYMING PROVERBS: Today's proverb with rhyme is: Discite victuri, sed vivite cras morituri (English: Learn as if you were going to live, but live as if you were going to die tomorrow).
VULGATE VERSES: Today's verse is Sapientia absconsa et thesaurus invisus: quae utilitas in utrisque? (Sirach 20:30). 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: Nemo mortalium omnibus horis sapit: No man in the world is wise at al houres. It is only belonging to God and properly due unto him never to commit follie. There is, I say, no man, but otherwiles doteth, but is deceived, but plaieth the foole, though he seme never so wise. Whan I say man, I except not the woman.
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Divitiis Utamur Ut Oportet. 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 Simia, Camelus, et Elephantus, a good story for those of you in states with highly contested elections this season!
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Struthiocamelus Perfidus, the story of the ostrich in the war of the birds and the beasts (this fable has a vocabulary list).
Latin Fables Read by Justin Slocum Bailey. Here is today's audio fable: Leo Iratus et Puteus, with links to the audio and to the blog post.
