text:  Let us see what he might allege--he might urge that Terence had acknowledged obligations to Menander on other occasions and that on this he seemed rather studiously to disclaim it pointing out Diphilus as his original--he might insist that Syrus could only have been the slave of a Roman master that Sannio corresponded exactly with our notions of a Roman pander that AEschinus was the picture of a dissolute young patrician--in short that through the transparent veil of Grecian drapery it was easy to detect the sterner features of Roman manners and society; nay more he might insist on the marriage of Micio at the close of the drama as Neufchateau does upon the drunkenness of Guyomar as alluding to some anecdote of the day and at any rate as the admitted invention of Terence himself