HODIE (Roman Calendar): Nonae Iuliae, the Nones of July.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Hecuba and Polymestor; 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: Non desistam (English: I will not stop).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word verb-less proverb is Repetitio mater memoriae (English: Repetition is the mother of memory)
AUDIO PROVERBS: Today's audio Latin proverb is Non faciunt meliorem equum aurei freni (English: Golden reins do not make a better horse). 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: Quam malus est, culpam qui suam alterius facit (English: How wicked is the man who blames someone else for his own fault).
ERASMUS' ANIMALS: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is Usus ovium nullus, ubi pastor deest (English: The flock is no good without a shepherd; from Adagia 2.7.26).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Sat Cito, Si Sat Bene. 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 Rubus et Ovis, a story about a bramble-bush that just won't let go.
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Cancer et Filius Eius, a "do as I say, not as I do" type of story (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: Ἐλέφας μῦν οὐκ ἀλεγίζει.
Elephas murem non curat. An elephant doesn't worry about a mouse.
