ὀσφραίνομαι

English (LSJ)

fut.

   A ὀσφρήσομαι Ar.Pax152: 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.NA9.54 (om. Rose), Arat.955, Ael.NA5.49, etc., ὀσφρηθῆναι Anon.Lond. 34.49, ὠσφρήθη Hsch.:—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.NA9.54; for in E.Cyc.154 (εἶδες γὰρ αὐτήν;—οὐ μὰ Δί', ἀλλ' 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.