[He/she/it] used to have the air.
Both of these verbs can refer to either pleasant or unpleasant smells; see web address 1 and 2 for their LSJ entries.
The headword
ὠδώδει is the pluperfect -- functioning as an imperfect -- of
ὄζω (
omicron 73), which like English "to smell" can be transitive or intransitive. The gloss
ἔπνει is the imperfect of
πνέω ; this use of the imperfect suggests that the scent continues to waft up from the smelly object, since the basic meaning of
πνέω is "blow."
The headword is almost certainly taken from
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 2.39C (=
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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