Anecdote

Anecdote (Gr. an, 'not,' and ekdotos, 'published'), a narrative of any single incident or fact of an interesting nature. The term in earlier times meant only private or hitherto unpublished narratives or details of history, from its use by Procopius, by whom it was applied to his 'Unpublished Memoirs' of the Emperor Justinian, consisting chiefly of tales of the private life of the court.