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

In the meanwhile, be content with the following version of the apologue, and be not too critical.

From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various

The history of Julian has been employed as an apologue by more than one writer when satirising some religious reaction of his day.

From Sermons by Lightfoot, J. B.

"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

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