HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem nonum Kalendas Septembres.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Orpheus and Eurydice; 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 Dum vivo, spero (English: So long as I live, I hope).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word proverb is Ne malorum memineris (English: Don't remember the bad things).
RHYMING PROVERBS: Today's proverb with rhyme is: Res satis est nota: foetent plus stercora mota (English: It is a quite well known fact: shit, when stirred, smells worse).
VULGATE VERSES: Today's verse is Mitte panem tuum super transeuntes aquas et post multa tempora invenies illum (Ecc. 11:1). 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: Taurum tollet, qui vitulum sustulerit: He that hath borne a calfe, that also beare a bull, he that accustomed him selfe to litle thinges, by litle and litle shal be able to goe awaye with greater thinges. One named Milo, was wont every day to beare a certaine way on his shoulders a calf. At length the calfe grew to a great oxe, his daily exercise made him still able to beare the oxe, when the oxe was now of an exceding great quantitie, ye see what maistries use worketh.
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Visne Bonus Dici?. Click here for a full-sized view.
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
TODAY'S FABLES:
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Satyrus et Viator, a story better suited for winter than summer since it involves snow (this fable has a vocabulary list).
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Astrologus Stellas Contemplans, a wonderful story for those of us who might be distracted by our own thoughts.
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 μιχαὴλ καὶ οἱ ἄγγελοι αὐτοῦ τοῦ πολεμῆσαι μετὰ τοῦ δράκοντος. Michaël et angeli ejus præliabantur cum dracone. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon.
