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ἔμφυ_λος and ἐμφύλιος, ον, the latter being preferred in Trag.: (φῦλον :—
A.in the tribe, i. e. of the same tribe or race, “ἀνὴρ ἔμφυλος” Od. 15.273; ἐμφύλιοι kinsfolk, S.Ant.1264 (lyr.), Pl.Lg.871a; ἐμφύλιον αἷμα the guilt of kindred blood, i. e. the murder of a kinsman, Pi. P.2.32, Pl.R.565e, cf. S.OT1406; “τοὔμφυλον αἷμα” Id.OC407; “στάσιές τε καὶ ἔμφυλοι φόνοι ἀνδρῶν” Thgn.51; ἔμφυλοι παρ᾽ ἑκατέροις registered in a tribe, GDI5040.15 (Hierapytna).
2. γῆ ἐμφύλιος one's native land, S.OC1385.
II. in or among one's people or family, “μάχα” Alc.Supp.23.11; ἔμφυλος στάσις intestine discord, Sol. 4.19, Hdt.8.3, Democr.249; “Ἄρης ἐμφύλιος” A.Eu.863; “μάχη” Theoc. 22.200; “πόλεμος” Plb.1.65.2, cf. Plu.Pomp.24.
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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    • Aeschylus, Eumenides, 863
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