[Meaning he/she/it] used to have the air.
*)wdw/dei: e)/pnei.
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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