A Dictionary of Epithets and Terms of Address
This is addressed to Feste, Olivia’s clown in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (4:i), but would not have implied to an Elizabethan audience that Feste really was Greek.
At the time Greeks had a reputation for being especially jovial, a reputation established for them by the Romans. The Latin verb graecari meant ‘to live in the Greek manner’, that is, to lead an easy-going life.
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