Ὠδώδει

used to reek, used to smell

Translated by Timothy McGovern17 Apr 2000Vetting: high6 revisions

7 words

Translation

[Meaning he/she/it] used to have the air.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὠδώδει· ἔπνει.

Betacode
*)wdw/dei: e)/pnei. 

Notes

  1. Both of these verbs can refer to either pleasant or unpleasant smells; see web address 1 and web address 2 for their LSJ entries.
    The headword w)dw/dei is the pluperfect -- functioning as an imperfect -- of o)/zw (omicron 73), which like English "to smell" can be transitive or intransitive. The gloss e)/pnei is the imperfect of pne/w; this use of the imperfect suggests that the scent continues to waft up from the smelly object, since the basic meaning of pne/w is "blow."
    The headword is almost certainly taken from Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 2.39C [2.9 Kaibel] (= Greek Anthology 13.29), the epigram about the bibulous Athenian comic poet Cratinus (kappa 2344), who 'used to reek of every cask'.

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Revision history6 revisions · last 16 Jan 2015
  1. expanded a ref — David Whitehead
  2. tweaked note — Catharine Roth
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
  5. cosmetics — Catharine Roth
  6. augmented note; added keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  7. Translated — Timothy McGovern

Cite this entry

“used to reek, used to smell.” Suda On Line. Tr. Timothy McGovern. 17 April 2000. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/omega/30>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/omega/30>.

Translation by Timothy McGovern for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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