The corpus record — Latin

oboleo

I smell a thing

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Where it lives

Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
Casina 1 · 1.29/10k
Menaechmi 1 · 1.05/10k
Mostellaria 1 · 1.04/10k
Apologia 2 · 0.93/10k

What it meant

ŏb-ŏlĕo — Lewis & Short

ŏb-ŏlĕo, ŭi, 2,

I v. a., to smell of any thing (ante-class. and post-Aug.).

I Lit.: oboluisti allium, Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 38: maluissem allium oboluisses, Suet. Vesp. 8: antidotum, id. Calig. 23: res mihi obolet. I smell a thing, App. Mag. p. 311, 31.—

II Transf.: jam oboluit Casina procul, Plaut. Cas. 4, 3, 21: marsupium huic oboluit, she smells your purse, id. Men. 2, 3, 33.

In the wild

Oboluit Plautus, Menaechmi 2.3
oboluisses Suetonius, Divus Vespasianus 8.3
oboluit Plautus, Casina 4.3
oboleat Apuleius, Apologia 57
oboluisti Plautus, Mostellaria 1.1
oboluisse Apuleius, Apologia 60

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.