A.“σμῆν” Luc.Lex.3; 3sg. Pass. “σμῆται” Antiph.148.4; but in Ion. and late Prose σμᾷ, σμᾶται, Hdt.9.110, Luc.Anach.29 (ἀπο-σμᾷ):—impf. ἔσμων （ἐξ-) Hdt.3.148: aor. “ἔσμησα” Alex.187.5:—Med., pres. part. “σμώμενος” Ar.Fr.360: aor. part. “σμησάμενοι” Hdt.4.73; Dor. part. “σμα_σαμένα” Call.Lav.Pall.32; inf. “ζμήσασθαι” PEnteux.82.3 (iii B.C.): —Pass., pf. part. “προ-εζμησμένος” PSI10.1180.48 (ii A.D.). (Hence σμή-χω, cf. ψάω ψήχω, νάω νήχω):—wipe or cleanse with soap or unguent (σμῆμα）“, ἀποπλύματι τὰς τρίχας” D.S.5.28: metaph., σμήσας τε λεπτοῖς ἁλσί (sc. τὴν σηπίαν) Alex. l.c.:—Act. mostly found in compds. δια-, ἐκ-, ἐπι-σμάω:—more freq. in Med., “σμησάμενοι τὰς κεφαλάς” Hdt.4.73, cf. 9.110; “λιπαρὸν σμασαμένα πλόκαμον” Call. l.c.: abs., “κατέλιπον αὐτὴν σμωμένην ἐν τῇ πυέλῳ” Ar.Fr.360, cf. Antiph. l.c.—σμῆσαι and σμῆμα are said by Phryn. (228) to be more Att. than σμῆξαι, σμῆγμα; but Moer. (p.336 P.) cites ῥύπτομαι, ῥύμμα as the true Att. words.
σμάω , 3sg. contr. σμῇ （ἐπι-) Cratin.90, Ar.Th.389; inf.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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