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σῆψις , Dor. σᾶψις , εως, ἡ, (σήπομαι)
A.fermentation, putrefaction, decay, “αὐχμηραί τε νόσοι καὶ σήψιες” Emp.121; “ὑγρῶν σάψιες” Ti.Locr. 102c, cf. Arist.HA569a28; “τὸ τέλος τῆς κατὰ φύσιν φθορᾶς ς. ἐστιν” Id.Mete.379a8; “ς. χλωρή” Hp.Prorrh.1.99; ς. ὀστέων,= σφάκελος, Moer.p.342P.
II. (σήπω) the process by which the intestines reject that part of food which is not nutritious, opp. πέψις, Arist.GA762a14, cf. Ath.7.276d, and v. σήπω 11.4. (Acc. to Gal.19.373 Empedocles said that πέψις took place σήψει.)
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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