This what they used to call the spirit who lived beside the door, but at the same time [the term comes] from manipulating matters; those doing this are said to be scoundrels. Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "set me up as Strophaios beside the door." It is an epithet of Hermes, from the [practice of] setting [him] up by the doors to guard against the other [sic] thieves; for these men are in the habit of shrinking back behind the doors and making all sorts of mischief.