Sentence example with the word 'apologue'

apologue

Definition n. a short moral story

Last update: July 4, 2015


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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.   [Please select]

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_--A rustic apologue, which is scarcely more than a prolonged pun on "Coat o' Clay."'   [Please select]

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--This is really a moral apologue on the benefits of keeping your word.   [Please select]

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--We find the stag in relation with the horse, as his stronger rival until man mounts upon the horse's back, in the well-known apologue of Horace, _Epist.   [Please select]

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The apologue is well known of the long-eared ass, who, when called upon to judge between the nightingale and the cuckoo as to who has the sweetest voice, decides in favour of the cuckoo.   [Please select]

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