apologue

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Briefly, in such a world without order and array, owing nothing, lending nothing, and borrowing nothing, you would see a more dangerous conspiration than that which Aesop exposed in his Apologue.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

I felt at once that I was in for the true Addisonian Oriental Apologue in all its hybrid incongruity.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 1, 1891 by Various

Such is my Apologue, Socrates, and such is the argument by which I endeavour to show that virtue may be taught, and that this is the opinion of the Athenians.

From Protagoras by Jowett, Benjamin

Apologue, Fable, Poesy, and Parable, Are false, but may be rendered also true, By those who sow them in a land that's arable: 'Tis wonderful what Fable will not do!

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

We saw it advertised by an alluring title—"Reynard the Fox—a renowned Apologue of the Middle Ages reproduced in Rhyme."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various