apologue

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Apologue, Fable, Poesy, and Parable, Are false, but may be rendered also true, By those who sow them in a land that's arable: 'Tis wonderful what Fable will not do!

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

Next in date to the Apologue comes the Fairy Tale proper, where the natural universe is supplemented by one of purely imaginative existence.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Such is my Apologue, Socrates, and such is the argument by which I endeavour to show that virtue may be taught, and that this is the opinion of the Athenians.

From Protagoras by Jowett, Benjamin

We saw it advertised by an alluring title—"Reynard the Fox—a renowned Apologue of the Middle Ages reproduced in Rhyme."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various

The Apologue or Beast-fable proper, a theme which may be of any age, as it is found in the hieroglyphs and in the cuneiforms.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir