Aristophanes [writes]: "not like the rascally Artemon, too hasty in his music and smelling out of the armpits of his Tragasaean father". This man used to be lampooned for malodorousness, because of smelling as bad as goats. He was a melic poet.
*)/ozwn ka)k tw=n masxalw=n patro\s tragasai/ou: *)aristofa/nhs: ou)d' w(/sper o( ponhro\s *)arte/mwn, o( taxu\s a)/gan th\n mousikh\n o)/zwn ka)k tw=n masxalw=n patro\s *tragasai/ou. ou(=tos e)pi\ dusosmi/a| dieba/lleto, dia\ th\n tra/gwn duswdi/an. h)=n de\ melopoio/s.
An approximation of
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 850-853 (e.g. in the headword phrase, twice here,
k'ak should be
kako/n, "smelling bad" -- and see further below), with scholion. Text at web address 1.
As implied (but not spelled out) in the comment, "Tragasaean" is a punning ethnikon suggestive in itself of goats (cf.
tau 889, etc). But NB: the initial "not like..." here is not in
Aristophanes' text, and it raises the suspicion that the lexicographer did not realise that "the rascally Artemon etc." is in fact describing the '
Cratinus' -- probably
not kappa 2344 -- named in line 849.
The 'Artemon' invoked here was first mentioned by
Anacreon (
alpha 1916).
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