σήπω,
[[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 995, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 84d, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: future σήψω [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 275: ] Refs 4th c.BC+]aorist ἔσηψα (δι-) [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 9.62 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—make rotten or putrid, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “fragment” l] Refs 4th c.BC+].with; of a serpent's poison, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Ch.” l] Refs 4th c.BC+].with; of the sting of the σήψ, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 16.40. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__b soak hides, δέρματα σ. [[ “Supp.epigram” 3.18 (Athens, 5th c.BC). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 metaphorically, corrupt, waste, αἱ ἡσυχίαι σήπουσι καὶ ἀπολλύασι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 153c; σ. τὰ τῆς πόλεως πράγματα 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 11.37. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II mostly in passive (perfect σέσηπα being used in passive sense, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.135, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 319, (κατα-) 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1035, (ἀπο-) 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.5.12)] Refs 8th c.BC+], future σᾰπήσομαι [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 7.397, (κατα-) 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 86b, (ἀπο-) 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προρρητικόν” 2.1: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist ἐσάπην [ᾰ] [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 152, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.41, 3.66, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 80d ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; σαπήῃ (κατα-), Epic dialect subjunctive for σαπῇ, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.27: ] Refs 8th c.BC+]perfect σέσημμαι probably in [[ “POxy.” 1449.51 (3rd c.AD)] Refs 3rd c.AD+]:—rot, moulder, of dead bodies, χρὼς σήπεται [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.414, compare 19.27, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.41; περὶ ῥινοῖο σαπείσης 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 152 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of wood, δοῦρα σέσηπε [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.135; τριήρης ὑπὸ τερηδόνων σαπεῖσα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1308. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]