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apologue

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ap·o·logue  (p-lôg, -lg)
n.
A moral fable, especially one having animals or inanimate objects as characters.

[French, from Latin apologus, from Greek apologos : apo-, apo- + logos, speech; see leg- in Indo-European roots.]

apologue [ˈæpəˌlɒg]
n
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) an allegory or moral fable
[from Latin, from Greek apologos]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.apologue - a short moral story (often with animal characters)apologue - a short moral story (often with animal characters)
story - a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines"
Aesop's fables - a collection of fables believed to have been written by the Greek storyteller Aesop
Translations
apologue [ˈæpəlɒg] Napólogo m


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And in my opinion this sort of writing and composition is of the same species as the fables they call the Milesian, nonsensical tales that aim solely at giving amusement and not instruction, exactly the opposite of the apologue fables which amuse and instruct at the same time.
Still I must bear my hard lot as well as I can--at least, I shall be amongst GENTLEFOLKS, and not with vulgar city people": and she fell to thinking of her Russell Square friends with that very same philosophical bitterness with which, in a certain apologue, the fox is represented as speaking of the grapes.
Not less true to all time are the details of that stately apologue.
 
 
 
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