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

The apologue was not delicate, but it conveyed a common impression.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by Morley, John

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

From The Red Cockade by Weyman, Stanley John

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

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