[Meaning] dew. Thus Antimachos used to be called Psekas ["Sputterer"]. [It is a term] applied to spitters. This man was a melic poet. He was given the name because he used to sprinkle [with spit] whomever he was talking to. There was also an Olympic [athlete] so called. This Antimachos appears to have created a decree prohibiting the ridicule of named persons in comedy; and on this account many of the poets did not come forward to take a chorus and many of the choristers starved.[1] Concerning this Antimachos Aristophanes says: "whom may I yet see longing for a cuttlefish; and may it, when boiled and salted and served on the table, run aground; and then, when he is about to take it, may a dog grab it and eat it. This [should be] one misfortune for him".[2]