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. Phoen. 246 “κοινὸν αἷμα, κοινὰ τέκεα”: O. T. 1406 “αἷμ᾽ ἐμφύλιον”, an incestuous kinship.
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