I.to make rotten or putrid, make to fester, of a serpent's poison, Aesch.
2.metaph. to corrupt, waste, Plat.
II.Pass., the perf. σέσηπα being used in pres. sense for σήπομαι: aor2 ἐσάπην [short α^]:— to be or become rotten, to rot, moulder, of dead bodies, Il.; of timber, Hdt., Il.
2.of live flesh, to mortify, Hdt., Plat.