σφᾰκελ-ίζω,
suffer from σφάκελος, to be gangrened, mortify, ἐσφακέλισέ τε τὸ ὀστέον καὶ ὁ μηρὸς ἐσάπη [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.66; σφακελίσαντος τοῦ μηροῦ καὶ σαπέντος [prev. author] 6.136, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 74b, 84b, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 519b6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the eyes, [[ LXX.Lev.26.16, LXX.Deu.28.32 ] LXX]: also in passive, ὁκόσοισιν ἂν σφακελισθῇ ὁ ἐγκέφαλος [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 7.50, compare “Morb.” 2.5 (variant). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 of the effect of severe cold on single limbs, to be frost-bitten, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 12.8. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__3 of plants and trees, to be blighted, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Juventute” 470a31, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.14.4, etc. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II to have spasms or convulsions, ἀπορεῖν καὶ σ. τῷ δεινῷ [[ 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 342, compare 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 80. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]