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Example sentences for: fable

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Until I read Pagel's The Gnostic Gospels I recalled the expression the naked truth as having derived from an old Roman fable (perhaps from Horace, around 50 B.C.) about Truth and Falsehood emerging from a swim together, Falsehood stealing Truth's clothers.
St. Jerome, translating from the Hebrew and referring to the Greek, while preparing the (Latin) Vulgate, evidently mistranslated the Hebrew qaran to shine, for qeren horn and went on record with cornuta , horned: Quod cornuta esset facies sua . Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable calls the translation “a blunder,” explaining that “the Hebrew for this shining may be translated either as `sent forth beams' or as `sent forth horns.
Truth, in the fable, would rather be naked than don the clothes of Falsehood, thus the naked Truth . I don't find the story appealing, but it appears in all references on the derivation of the expression.
Sometimes the author himself seems to float upward on a gust of wind, into the airy zones of fable, which seem to have been his instinctive home.
Her father, a small-town pediatrician, had somehow gone to medical school without having gone to college, or possibly even (here we begin to slip into the realm of Marquez-like fable) finishing high school.