apologue

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As often as this apologue is repeated, I still catch myself questioning its accuracy: Does the culture not prefer to hold people endlessly responsible for past indiscretions?

From The New Yorker • Aug. 25, 2016

The origin of the apologue is extremely ancient and comes from the East, which is the natural fatherland of everything connected with allegory, metaphor and imagination.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various

"It was, I believe, about this time, apropos of this game of which the origin is either Arabian or Chinese, that my apologue obtained the honours of print."

From Mathieu Ropars: et cetera by Young, William

A tuft of primroses was blooming hard by the leg of an old, black table tombstone, and he stopped to contemplate the random apologue.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston by Stevenson, Robert Louis

And in my turn I have enacted, or experienced, many a little apologue.

From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various