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

Erasmus has pointed out some of these sources, in the responses of oracles; the allegorical symbols of Pythagoras; the verses of the poets; allusions to historical incidents; mythology and apologue; and other recondite origins.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac

And yet, though it is a watery apologue, it will not hold water for a moment.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George

Remarks.—This is a moral apologue on the benefits of keeping your word.

From Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales by Various

Professor Huxley, in one of those smart passages of arms which so forcibly illustrated his intellectual vigour, gave an apologue, which I wish that I could steal without acknowledgment.

From Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies by Stephen, Leslie, Sir