fabula
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fabulae,
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fabulas
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One legacy of this fourth season is that comedy nerds of the future, looking back on the puzzles of it, will all have to learn to talk smartly about fabula and syuzhet.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2013
In The Virginians he is less attentive to dramatic propriety; he begins again to turn aside and lecture us, in the midst of his tale, upon the text of De te fabula narratur.
From Studies in Literature and History by John O. Miller
If not a hypocrite or a vain man, he may find himself blushing at the thought de me fabula narratur.
From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various
Hæc fabula docet—Don't be made to feel it's cowardly to use a nom de plume if you want to.
From The Writer, Volume VI, April 1892. A Monthly Magazine to Interest and Help All Literary Workers by Robert Luce
She goes to confession; and recollect, American reader, that what I here state is "Mutata fabula de te ipso narratur."
From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by William Hogan
Many of these salticae fabulae must have been mere adaptations of existing tragedies.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler
But both fabulae palliatae and togatae, that is to say, comedies representing Greek and Roman life respectively, continued to be acted on the public stage.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler
There still remain the fabulae Atellanae, so called from Atella, an Oscan town of Campania, and often mentioned as Osci Ludi.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Thomas Cruttwell
The intenser passions and emotions were not banished from the stage, but survived in the salticae fabulae and a peculiar species of dramatic recitation.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler
The later writers of the fabulae togatae seem for the most part to have reproduced the life and personages of the provincial towns in Italy.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar
As early as the 8th century fabliaux must have existed, since the faithful are forbidden to take pleasure in these fabulas inanes by the Paenitentiale of Egbert.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
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