ὀσφραίνομαι

ὀσφραίνομαι, fut. ὀσφρήσομαι Ar. Pax 152: aor. 2 ὠσφρόμην Hdt. (v. infr.), Ar. Ach. 179; inf. ὀσφρέσθαι Eup. 10; part. ὀσφρόμενος Philonid. 3 (the aor. 1 form ὤσφραντο in Hdt. 1.80, Aristid. 2.308 J. seems to be an error of the copyists for ὤσφροντο which is v.l. in Aristid.):—Pass., aor. ὠσφράνθην Hp. Superf. 25, Arist. de An. 424b4, Pr. 887a10, LXX Ge. 8.21: fut. ὀσφρανθήσομαι ib.To. 6.18, Ps. 134(135).17: the forms ὀσφρᾶται, -ῶνται, etc. only in late writers, as Ph. 1.617 (dub. l.), Paus. 9.21.3, Luc. Pisc. 48, Anon.Lond. 33.30 (f.l. in Antiph. 147.6, Philem. 79.26): aor. ὠσφρήσαντο Arist. ap. Ael. NA 9.54 (om. Rose), Arat. 955, Ael. NA 5.49, etc., ὀσφρηθῆναι Anon.Lond. 34.49, ὠσφρήθη Hsch.:—A. catch scent of, smell, c. gen., Hdt. 1.80, Ar. Ra. 654, X. Mem. 2.1.24, etc.: abs., Pl. Phd. 96b, etc.; ἡ αἴσθησις ἡ τοῦ ὀσφραίνεσθαι Arist. Sens. 445a5: c. acc. only in late writers, ὀ. θρυαλλίδα ἐσβεσμένην Arist. ap. Ael. NA 9.54; for in E. Cyc. 154 (εἶδες γὰρ αὐτήν;—οὐ μὰ Δίʼ, ἀλλʼ ὀσφραίνομαι) , αὐτῆς must be supplied, cf. Ar. Ra. 489; and in Id. Pl. 896, ὀσφραίνει τι; τι is adverbial, at all. 2. metaph., get scent of, τῆς Ἱππίου τυραννίδος Id. Lys. 619; τοῦ χρυσίου Luc. Tim. 45. II. causal in Act., ὀσφραίνειν τινά τινι make one smell at a thing, Gal. 12.795; cf. ἀπ-, προσοσφραίνω.