1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
APOLOGUE (from the Gr. dTroXoyos, a statement or account), a short fable or allegorical story, meant to serve as a pleasant vehicle for some moral doctrine or to convey some useful lesson. One of the best known is that of Jotham in the Book of Judges (ix. 7-15); others are " The City Rat and Field Rat," by Horace, " The Belly and its Members," by the patrician Menenius Agrippa in the second book of Livy, and perhaps most famous of all, those of Aesop. The term is applied more particularly to a story in which the ac…
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- Vol. 2, pp. 194-194