Ὠδώδει
used to reek, used to smell
Translated by Timothy McGovern17 Apr 2000Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning he/she/it] used to have the air.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὠδώδει· ἔπνει.
Betacode
*)wdw/dei: e)/pnei.
Notes
- 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 headwordw)dw/dei is the pluperfect -- functioning as an imperfect -- ofo)/zw (omicron 73), which like English "to smell" can be transitive or intransitive. The glosse)/pnei is the imperfect ofpne/w ; this use of the imperfect suggests that the scent continues to waft up from the smelly object, since the basic meaning ofpne/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'.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history6 revisions · last 16 Jan 2015
- expanded a ref — David Whitehead
- tweaked note — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- cosmetics — Catharine Roth
- augmented note; added keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Timothy McGovern