text:  He might challenge the advocates of Menander to produce the Greek original from which the play was borrowed; he might reject the Greek idioms which abound in that masterpiece of the Roman stage with contempt as beneath his notice; and disregard the names which betray a Grecian origin the allusions to the habits of Grecian women to the state of popular feeling at Athens and the administration of Athenian law with supercilious indifference