Noun
fabula (plural fabulae)
(narratology) A series of events forming the basis of a story or narrative.
In the literary myths Hesiod Theogony 984; pseudo-Apollodorus Bibliotheke iii. 14.3; Pausanias i. 3.1; Ovid Metamorphoses vii. 703ff; Hyginus Fabula 189. Eos kidnapped Cephalus when he was hunting and took him to Syria. Source: Internet