HODIE (Roman Calendar): ante diem quartum Idus Ianuarias.
MYTHS and LEGENDS: The art image for today's legend shows Heracles and Cerberus; you can also see the legends for the current week listed together here.
TODAY'S MOTTOES and PROVERBS:
TINY PROVERBS: Today's tiny proverb is: Varietas delectat (English: Variety is pleasing).
3-WORD MOTTOES: Today's 3-word verb-less motto is Iustitia et veritas (English: Justice and truth).
ANIMAL PROVERBS: Today's animal proverb is Sola apis excellit muscarum milia quinque (English: A single bee is better than five thousand flies).
POLYDORUS: Today's proverb from Polydorus is: Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus (English: Without Ceres [bread] and Bacchus [wine], Venus [love] grows cold).
PROPER NAME PROVERBS: Today's proper name proverb from Erasmus is Ubi sunt Theagenis plurimae pecuniae (English: Where all the great wealth of Theagenes is ... that is, nowhere; from Adagia 2.9.6 - Theagenes was a poor man who boasted about having lots of money, hidden away somewhere).
GREEK PROVERBS: Today's proverb is Ἰδοὺ Ῥόδος, ἰδοὺ καὶ πήδημα (English: Let this be Rhodes, and let your jump be here... an allusion to the Aesop's fable about the boastful athlete).
BREVISSIMA: The distich poster for today is Deum Dilige Corde Toto. Click here for a full-sized view.
And here are today's proverbial LOLcats:
Bibe, si bibis.
Drink, if you're drinking.
Nihil gratius est pace.
Nothing is more welcome than peace.
TODAY'S FABLES:
MILLE FABULAE: The fable from the Mille Fabulae et Una widget is Viatores Duo et Bipennis, a story about sharing both the good and the bad.
FABULAE FACILES: The fable from the Fabulae Faciles widget is Asinus et Grammaticus, a funny little story about education (this fable has a vocabulary list).
Latin Fables Read by Justin Slocum Bailey. Here is today's audio fable: Leo Senex et Vulpes, with links to the audio and to the blog post.
