The Livy quotation parallel does not hold up under scrutiny

Barr argues the phrase 'let them ask their husbands at home' echoes Livy's 'could you not have asked your own husbands the same thing at home.' However, using Evan T. Sage's translation (PhD, Professor of Latin, University of Pittsburgh), the Livy quote reads 'could you not have made the same requests' -- these are political lobbying requests, not questions for educational purposes. In 1 Corinthians, women are asking questions to learn; in Livy, women are lobbying for political action. The concepts are fundamentally different despite surface word similarity.