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These are vain rumours, nugae sunt, fabulae sunt.

From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Sastrow, Bartholomew

Quod si ea ficta credimus licentia fabularum, Mopsum, Tiresiam, 5 Amphiaraum, Calchantem, Helenum, quos tamen augures ne ipsae quidem fabulae adscivissent, si res omnino repudiaret, ne domesticis quidem exemplis docti numen deorum conprobabimus?

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund

Huic nomen Graece Onagost fabulae; Demophilus scripsit, Maccius vortit barbare.

From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by Middleton, George

Many of these salticae fabulae must have been mere adaptations of existing tragedies.

From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth

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 Sellar, W. Y.