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What does apologue mean?

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Noun
  1. a short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable
  2. (rhetoric) use of fable to persuade the audience
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Such an apologue is literally no exaggeration of the facts of English history.
Not less true to all time are the details of that stately apologue.
I think my own dissatisfaction with this apologue is that the effect is simply one of negation.
And here, Socrates, I will leave the apologue and resume the argument.
Length is not an essential matter in the definition of an apologue.
Sandrart's story of Caravaggio's death is easily interpreted as an apologue rather than as biography because there is so little ground to confuse moral and factual truths.

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