The same Aristophanes[1] [mentions them]; they are famous. "For the husbands now carry secret keys, most ill-natured ones, certain Lakonian ones, with [three] teeth. So previously it was possible, for women who had had a three-obol seal-ring made, to open the door. But now this man [Euripides] has taught them to have [seals] made of worm-eaten wood hanging from their belts".[2] For he says that ancient [keys] are single-bolted. Menander in Misoumenos [writes]: "a Lakonian key, it seems to me, should be deployed".[3] He is saying that [with such a key a door] is locked from outside, by the positioning of a bar or something of the kind, so that those inside cannot open it