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

I am rather proud of this little apologue of the apple.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane

Sir Walter Scott’s judgment that the Buke is “a poetical apologue ... without any view whatever to local or natural politics” is certainly the most reasonable.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various

Between Sacred and Profane Love, between the love of literature and the pursuit of politics, the line is not, in practice, drawn so hard and fast as in the beautiful apologue immortalised by Titian.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred

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.