 It is noteworthy that the two fathers of apologue in the West were slaves, namely Aesop and Phaedrus.La Fontaine in France; Gay and Dodsley in England; Gellert, Lessing and Hagedorn in Germany; Tomas de Iriarte in Spain, and Krylov in Russia, are leading modern writers of apologues.Length is not an essential matter in the definition of an apologue.