fabula
noun
a story or tale, especially a fanciful one or a folk tale.
fabulae
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pluralof fabula.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
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
