Redoleo, rédoles, pe. cor. redólui, vel redoléui, redólitum vel redolêtum, redolêre. Vir. To smell or sauour: to cast a sent.Antiquitatem redolet, per translationem.Cic.It sauoureth or smacketh of antiquitie.Nihil illa vicinitas redolet.Cic.Fœtorem redoler. Col. It stinketh or casteth an ill sauour.Sermonem eius redoler.Cic.It sauoureth of his talke.Situm redolet. Plin. It sauoureth of horinesse or vinewing.Solitudinem redolere. Plin. Vinum redolere.Cic.To stinke of wine.Virus redolere. Plin.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
rĕd-ŏlĕo, ŭi, ēre, v. a. and n., to emit a scent, diffuse an odor; to smell of or like, be redolent of any thing. I.Act.A.Lit.: vinum redolens,
smelling of wine
, Cic. Phil. 2, 25, 63: unguenta, Plin. 11, 18, 19, 61: thymum, Quint. 12, 10, 25: illa tuas redolent medicamina mensas, Ov. R. Am. 355; id. A. A. 3, 213: foetorem acoremve, Col. 12, 18, 3: delicias, Mart. 14, 59.—B.Trop.: orationes redolentes antiquitatem, Cic. Brut. 21, 82: doctrinam exercitationemque paene puerilem, id. de Or. 2, 25, 109: servitutem paternam, Val. Max. 6, 2, 8 fin.: nihil, Cic. Cael. 20, 47. — II.Neutr.A.Lit., absol: quod fracta magis redolere videntur Omnia, Lucr. 4, 696; so Ov. M. 4, 393: in patulis redolentia mala canistris, id. ib. 8, 675 al.—With gen.: fila Tarentini redolentia porri edisti, Mart. 13, 18, 1. — With abl.: redolent thymo fragrantia mella, Verg. G. 4, 169; id. A. 1, 436: mella thymi redolentia flore, Ov. M. 15, 80; Val. Fl. 4, 15; Val. Max. 1, 6 fin.— B.Trop.: mihi quidem ex illius orationibus redolere ipsae Athenae videntur, Cic. Brut. 82, 285; id. Sest. 10, 24 Orell. N. cr.: praefectus urbis, cui nescio quid redoluerat, a conventu se abstinuit, who had got scent of something, Capitol. Gord. II.
