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

But, if we allow this rigorous definition, the apologue, so dear to the moralist, is a Novel, and deserving of proscription.

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro

"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

Strenuous devotion to the deliverance of mankind from dangers and pests is the “virtue” which, in Prodicus’ famous apologue on the Choice of Hercules, the hero preferred to an easy and happy life.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

A round of hoarse merriment went to this shrewd apologue, of which I was yet to learn the application; but waited not long for it.

From Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Wallis, Arthur F.