apologus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ăpŏlŏgus, i, m., = ἀπολογος.

I A narrative : apologum agere, Plaut. Stich. 4, 1, 32; so id. ib. 4, 1, 38 and 64.—More freq.,

II A fable after the manner of Aesop , an apologue: narrationes apologorum, Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 264; so id. Inv. 1, 17; Auct. Her. 1, 6; Quint. 6, 3, 45; Gell. 2, 29.

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