1.It may be found again in the writings of the poet Menander.

2.They are adaptations or combinations from the works of Menander, Diphilus, Philemon, and other writers of the new comedy.

3.The exclamation of the ancient critic—Oh Menander and Nature, which of you copied from the other! would not be misapplied to Shakspeare.

4.Cleopatra read Homer’s epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey, poetry by Hesiod and Pindar; and plays by Euripides and Menander.

5.And this decision is not affected by the fact that in certain Gnostic sects figured historical personages such as Simon Magus and Menander.

6.And Menander makes mention of Emeralds also, in his Little Boy— There must be an emerald and a sardonyx.

7.Some of Glycera's letters to her poet lover Menander, still extant, show how warm a sympathy existed between the two, and how delicate a sentiment could characterize such a union.

8.Menander, in his Fishermen, says— And the disturbed and muddy sea which breeds The largest tunnies.

9.The best known writers of New Comedy were Philemon, Apollodorus, and Menander, only fragments of whose works have come down to us.

10.In their themes, and in the treatment of these, they are what they were intended to be, the direct opposites of the lightsome adapter of Menander.

11.But here, alas! the great originals of Menander, Philemon, and Diphilus are lost to us, and we must be content with the Latin accommodations.

12.Circumstances which would send the works of Baudelaire and Keats to rejoin the works of Menander are no longer in the least inconceivable; they are in all the newspapers....

13.But Menander mentions him likewise in the Cecryphalus: and in his Anger he says— The man does not differ the least from Chærephon, Whoever he may be.

14.Then oft I turn the page In which our country's name, Spoiling the Greek of fame, Shall sound in every age: Or some Terentian play Renew, whose excellent Adjusted folds betray How once Menander went.

15.The Romans copied the Greeks, and thank goodness they did; much of what happened in the age of Socrates, Plato and Menander is known to us only through Roman facsimiles.

16.Menander, the greatest representative of the New Comedy, has been compared to a mirror, so clear were the images he presented of human life.

17.It would be hard to describe the friend, whom Aristotle and Menander had in mind.

18.The new comedy—the romantic comedy of Menander—had not yet been invented.

19.Donatus has afforded us an account of the plot of his Phasma, which was taken from Menander.

20.The most famous of the Bactrian kings of India was Menander I, whose kingdom stretched from the Indus River valley to the upper Ganges in central India.