Arduous and cryptic, it has been. I wanna thank Mav for his above-and-beyond parsing, though it didn't really help me much in arriving at my choice.
Here's the thing: after many sleepless nights, D stayed with me. But it has The Mark of The Ted written all over it. Well, the last two lines, anyway. Somehow it seems right; I've heard of this device before. But its name? This I do not know.
So, in the spirit of the "it's all Greek to me" Weltanschauung, I'll go with A; though it's beyond me how one could disguise one's own self to look like one belonged to a different Greek city. Toga embroidery or something?
