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

An Italian fabulist, Corti, is said to have developed an apologue of “The Talking Animals” to the bulk of twenty-six cantos.

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

Take even the famous, the immortal apologue of Mrs. Partington.

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

It is noteworthy that the two fathers of apologue in the West were slaves, namely Aesop and Phaedrus.

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

Let me tell you an apologue, M. le Vicomte.

From The Red Cockade by Weyman, Stanley John