ἔμφυτον, "planted in us at our birth": whereby they are sharers in the hereditary ἀρά on the Labdacid race.

ἄλαστον: cp. on 1482.

αἷμα, as kinsfolk are of the same "blood": cp. Eur. 246 κοινὸν αἷμα, κοινὰ τέκεα: 1406 αἷμ᾽ ἐμφύλιον, an incestuous kinship.