HODIE: ante diem sextum Idus Novembres.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows The Origin of the Milky Way; 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 Quae prosunt sequor (English: I pursue things that are useful).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word proverb is Morsus morsum ducit (English: One bite leads to another).
RHYMING PROVERBS: Today's proverb with rhyme is: Non vult scire satur, quid ieiunus patiatur (English: The well-fed man does not want to know what the hungry man feels).
VULGATE VERSES: Today's verse is Comedamus et bibamus; cras enim moriemur (Isaiah 22:13). 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: Fertilior seges est alieno semper in auro: The corne in an other mans ground, semeth evermore fertil and plentifull then doth oure owne.
BREVISSIMA: The distich for today is Omnia Tempus Habent: Omnia tempus habent: flebis dum tempora flendi, / Ride dum risum tempora laeta ferunt.
And here is today's proverbial lolcat:
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Pulex et Abbas, a wonderful little story about a tricky flea (this fable has a vocabulary list).
AESOP IN ENGLISH VERSE: Today's fable from the English verse widget is The Cat and Venus, the famous story of what happened when Venus turned a cat into a woman.
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Catus et Gallus, the story of a self-righteous cat and a doomed rooster.
