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

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

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

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane

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

At the time, however, they appeared quite pointless enough; and the moral, as in the case of the continental apologue of Reynard the Fox, seemed always omitted.

From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh