The late fifth and early fourth-century BC comic poet Nicophon wrote a play called either "Cheirogastores" or "Encheirogastores" ("Hands-to-Mouth"), which is thought to have been about these Cyclopean wall-builders. Ancient lexicographers explained the title as meaning "those who feed themselves by manual labour", and, according to Eustathius of Thessalonica, the word was used to describe the Cyclopean wall-builders, while "hands-to-mouth" was one of the three kinds of Cyclopes distinguished by scholia to Aelius Aristides. Similarly, possibly deriving from Nicophon's comedy, the first-century Greek geographer Strabo says these Cyclopes were called "Bellyhands" ("gasterocheiras") because they earned their food by working with their hands.