HODIE: ante diem septimum Idus Septembres.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Circe and Scylla; 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 Vincit omnia veritas (English: Truth conquers all).
3-WORD PROVERBS: Today's 3-word proverb is Date obolum Belisario (English: Given a penny to Belisarius - you can read about the legend of Belisarius the beggar at Wikipedia).
RHYMING PROVERBS: Today's proverb with rhyme is: Una serena dies multas pellit cito nubes (English: One clear day swiftly drives away many clouds).
VULGATE VERSES: Today's verse is Nudus egressus sum de utero matris meae et nudus revertar illuc (Job 1:21). 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: Intempestiva benevolentia nihil a simultate differt: Unseasonable friendship differeth litle from enmitie. Many there be which while they studie to do a man good do him muche harme, or otherwise be moleste and grevous unto him, forasmuch as they have no respecte ne consideracion of the time.
BREVISSIMA: The distich for today is Visne Bonus Dici? Ficta parum constant: quod haberi poscis, id esto! / Visne bonus dici? Cura sit esse bonum.
And here is today's proverbial lolcat:
TODAY'S FABLES:
AESOP IN ENGLISH VERSE: Today's fable from the English verse widget is The Two Crabs, a story about parental hypocrisy.
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Feles et Venus, the fabulous story of what happened when Venus turned a cat into a woman.
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Aquila et Vulpes, the dramatic story of what happened when the eagle stole the fox's pups (this fable has a vocabulary list).
