• FABLE

1. v. fabulose narrare aliquid fingere, comminisci aliquid (to feign, invent anything). ☞ Fabulari occurs nowhere in this sense.

2. s. fabula: fabella (any fictitious narrative, any tale or story; hence, of any mythological story, aesopian fable, or dramatic piece; both also, with ficta, commenticia, composita, or poetica): apologus (a fable, as a vehicle to convey a moral lesson, as the fables of aesop, Phaedrus, etc.): commentum: res commenticia: mendacium (a fictitious story, untruth): historia fabularis (the whole compass of mythology, Suet., Tiberius, 70). As the fable says, according to the fable, ut est in fabulis; ut ferunt fabulae: truth is often conveyed in the form of fable, sub fabulis velut involucris saepe veritas latet: to be fond of fables, fabulis duci or delectari: to hold anything to be a fable, falsum aliquid existimare.