A.rotten, putrid, Hippon.23, Hp.Oss.13; of the lungs, diseased, Id.Morb.1.13; of bone, carious, Id.Fract.33; of wood, etc., rotten, “ἱστίον” Ar.Eq.918; “βύρσα” Id.V.38; πινακίσκος, φορμός, σχοινίον, Id.Pl.813,542, V.1343; “ἱμάς” Men.109.4; τοῦ διατειχίσματος ἀνελόντι τὰ ς. IG22.1672.24; of a house, ς. καὶ ῥέουσα καὶ καταπίπτουσα Telesp.27 H.; “ἐλαῖαι” Thphr.HP4.14.10: prov., “σαπροῦ πείσματος ἀντιλαβέσθαι” Thgn.1362: esp., of fish that have been long in pickle, stale, rancid, “τάριχος” Ar.Ach.1101; opp. πρόσφατος, Antiph. 218.4, cf. 125.6; of withered flowers, D.22.70. Adv., -ρῶς λούει τὰ βαλανεῖα so as to leave one filthy, Arr.Epict.2.21.14.
II. generally, stale, worn out, “ἀρχαῖον καὶ σαπρόν” Ar.Pl.323; of clothes, PGiss.26.6 (ii A.D.). Adv., -ῶς (perh. misspelt for -ός) περιπατῶ I am walking about in rags, BGU846.9 (ii A.D.).
2. of persons, γέρων ὢν καὶ ς. Ar.Pax698; ὦ σαπρά, to an old woman, Id.Ec.884, Hermipp. 10; so “εἶναι σαπρὸν κοὐδὲν δύνασθαι” Ar.V.1380; οὐδέν ἐσμεν οἱ ς. Eup.221; “ς. γυναῖκα . . ὁ τρόπος εὔμορφον ποιεῖ” Philem.170.
3. of wine, mellow (cf. σαπρίας), Eup.442, cf. Philyll.24; “τρὺξ παλαιὰ καὶ σαπρά” Ar.Pl.1086; of old wine, “ὀδόντας οὐκ ἔχων, ἤδη σαπρὸς . ., γέρων γε δαιμονίως” Alex.167.4.
5. metaph., unsound, bad, “λόγος” Ep.Eph.4.29; opp. καλός, Vett.Val.36.30, cf. PSI4.312.13 (iv A.D.); “ἄρουραι” PGiss.13.22 (ii A.D.); “τὰ ς. ταῦτα” Arr.Epict.3.16.7; “ὡς ς. καὶ κίβδηλος ὁ λέγων . . ” M.Ant.11.15, cf. Sammelb.5761.23 (i A.D.), PSI6.717.4 (ii A.D.); τὴν ς. εἱμαρμένην the evil fate, PMag.Leid.W.14.38.