fabula

Latin term · 42 occurrences · 16 works

Short definition (Lewis & Short): a narration, narrative, account, story; the subject of common talk.

Full entry: Lexicon.

42 occurrences of this form in 16 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).

Works using this form

Epistles
Horace · 4 occurrences
Satires
Horace · 4 occurrences
Epigrams
Martial · 4 occurrences
Ars Amatoria
Ovid · 4 occurrences
Metamorphoses
Ovid · 4 occurrences
The Golden Ass
Apuleius · 3 occurrences
Ars Poetica
Horace · 3 occurrences
History of Rome (Books 1–10)
Livy · 3 occurrences
Letters to Lucilius
Seneca · 3 occurrences
Letters to Atticus
Cicero · 2 occurrences
Satires
Juvenal · 2 occurrences
Life of Nero
Suetonius · 2 occurrences
Poems
Catullus · 1 occurrences
Philippics
Cicero · 1 occurrences
Letters
Pliny the Younger · 1 occurrences
Phaedra
Seneca · 1 occurrences

Example passages

…Fabula, qua Paridis propter narratur amorem Graecia barbariae lento collisa duello, stultorum regum et populorum continet aestus. Antenor censet belli praecidere causam: quid Paris? ut salvus regnet……

Horace — Epistles · Read in context

……ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.’ Tantalus a labris sitiens fugientia captat flumina — quid rides? mutato nomine de te fabula narratur: congestis undique saccis…

Horace — Satires · Read in context

…Quod numquam maribus iunctam te, Bassa, videbam Quodque tibi moechum fabula nulla dabat, Omne sed officium circa te semper obibat Turba tui sexus, non adeunte viro, Esse videbaris, fateor, Lucretia nobis:…

Martial — Epigrams · Read in context

Subjects

Myth & legend

Related terms in Greek (same subject)

θεός (theos) — Myth & legend
μῦθος (mythos) — Myth & legend

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