What Theseus was the first to do, as Zopyros says, since Phaedra, as they say, began to whisper to Theseus against Hippolytos, slandering him. But others say that Hermes [was called] the Whisperer for a more human [reason], because people meeting there [sc. at his temple] used to devise unspeakable deeds and to whisper to each other about what they wanted [to do].[1]
Ψιθυρισμός ["whispering"] is speaking evil about those who are present, in the Apostle.[2]