While not a self-evident conflation of two different individuals, as the next entry is (alpha 1274, q.v.), there is an obscurity here, represented by prw=ton tragiko\n gegone/nai. Does prw=ton mean (a) at first or (b) the first? If a, one could consider emending one of the two appearances of "tragic poet" -- and it scarcely matters which -- to "comic poet". But it is probably better to accept b.