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ἔμφυ^τος , ον,
A.inborn, natural, “ἔ. μαντ ικὴν εἶχε” Hdt.9.94; “πατρὸς αἶμα” S.OC1671 (lyr.); “τοῖς πλουτοῦσι τοῦτο δ᾽ ἔ.” E.Fr.776.1, cf. Men. 15.1 D.; “ἔρως ἔ. τοῖς ἀνθρώποις” Pl.Smp.191d; ἡ μὲν [ἰδέα] “ἔ. οὖσα, ἐπιθυμία ἡδονῶν” Id.Phdr.237d, cf.D.60.1; αἰσχροκέρδεια, πονηρία, Din. 1.108; “κακία” LXX Wi.12.10; ἔ. ἡ ἀρετή, opp. διδακτός, Pl.Erx.398c, cf. Lys.33.7; “τὸ ἔ. θερμόν” Hp.Aph.1.14; “ἔ. θερμότης” Arist.Mete.355b9; οὐκ ἦν ταῦτα τοῖς ?αθηναίοις πάτρια . . οὐδ᾽ ἔ. D.18.203; “τὰν ἔ. αὐτοῖς ἀθεσίαν” IPE1.185 (Chersonesus). Adv. “-τως” Ph.Fr.70H.
II. planted, “Χωρίον” PHamb.23.16 (vi A. D.); “ἐλαῖαι” BGU241.28 (ii A. D.).
2. implanted, “λόγος” Ep.Jac.1.21.
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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