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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• smell (v.):
  1. A. Trans.
    1. I. Lit.: To perceive by the nose, smell at, examine by smelling, smell out, detect by smelling:
      1. 1. olfăcio, fēci, factum, 3: to s. anything, aliquid o., Cic. Tusc. 5, 38, 111.
      2. 2. olfacto, 1: to s. at a dress, o. vestimentum, Pl. Men. 1, 2, 56: to s. at a branch of penny-royal, pulegii ramum o., Plin. 20, 14, 54, § 155.
      3. 3. ŏdōror, 1: I will go and s. out like a hound, ibo odorans quasi canis venaticus, Pl. Mil. 2, 2, 113: cf. cibum o., Hor. Epod. 6, 10. Join (fig.): indagare et odorari aliquid, Cic. Verr. 2, 54, 135. Phr.: to s. at a nosegay, fasciculum ad nares admovere, Cic. Tusc. 3, 18, 43: cf. ducere naribus tura, Hor. Od. 4, 1, 21.
    2. II. Fig.: olfăcio: or should I not have smelt him out six entire months, before he attempted any such project, aut non sex totis mensibus prius olfecissem quam ille quicquam coeperet, Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 42: to s. out money, o. nummum, Cic. Agr. 1, 4, 11. Phr.: to s. out the bribery of Staienus, odore suspicionis Staienum corruptum esse sentire, Cic. Clu. 27, 73: she has smelt your purse, marsupium huic oboluit, Pl. Men. 2, 3, 33: my wife now s.s out my design, subolet hoc jam uxori quod ego machinor, ib. 2, 3, 59: v. TO TRACK OUT, SCENT OUT, detect, find out.
  2. B. Intrans.: to emit a s., or to s. of:
      1. 1. ŏleo, ŏlui, 2 (constr. absol. or with acc.: less freq. with abl. of the thing): women seemed to s. well, because they smelt of nothing (i. e. had no perfumes), mulieres ideo bene olere, quia nihil olebant, videbantur, Cic. Att. 2, 1, 1: to s. well, bene olere (v. supr.): jucunde o., Plin. 20, 17, 69, § 177: to s. ill, male o., Plaut.: he s.s of perfumes, olet unguenta, Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 37: to s. of sulphur, o. sulphure, Ov. M. 5, 405. Also in fig. sense (v. to smack, B. II. 3: to betray, II. 3).
      2. 2. rĕdŏleo, ui, 2 (like oleo in constr.: lit. and fig.: v. to smack, B. II. 4).
      3. 3. ŏbŏleo, 2 (to s. strong, stink): you s. of garlic, oboluisti allium, Pl. Most. 1, 1, 38: v. to stink.
      4. 4. pĕrŏleo, 2 (to emit a penetrating odour): Lucr. 6, 1153.
      5. 5. fragro, 1 (usu. with abl. of the thing): you always s. of casia and cinnamon, semper casiaque cinnamoque fragras, Mart. 6, 55, 1, and pass. Also of unpleasant odours: that you may not s. offensively of yesterday's wine, ne gravis hesterno fragres vino, id. 1, 87, 1: but gen. found in pres. part.: v. smelling (adj.)
      6. 6. hālo, 1: v. to exhale (2), fragrance.
      7. 7. spīro, 1: whether the cinnamon s. flat, seu spirent cinnama surdum, Pers. 6, 35: plenty of strong-s.ing savory, graviter spirantis copia thymbrae, Virg. G. 4, 31.
      8. 8. săpio, īvi or ii, 3 (rare in this sense): to s. of perfumes, unguenta s.: Plin. 17, 5, 3, § 38: cf. Pl. Ps. 2, 4, 47.
      9. 9. expr. by odor with verb: e. g., jactare odorem, Virg. G. 2, 132: spirare o., id. Aen. 1, 407 (404): spargere o., Hor. Od. 2, 15, 7: reddere odorem, Plin. 36, 23, 55 § 177.
      10. 10. foeteo, pūteo, 2, etc.: v. to stink. Phr.: the scent s.s strong, odor nares opplet, Varr. R. R. 3, 4, extr.: whose breath s.s rank, cui os oleat, Ulp. Dig.: cf. anima foetet, Pl. As. 5, 2, 44.