CONNATURAL • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Connatural

... quality to produce such effects, nor to act rather than to be acted on when they are in the bodies, but being there susceptible, of various temperatures and differences. For Epicurus himself, in his Second Book against Theophrastus, affirming that colors are not connatural to bodies, but are engendered there according to certain situations and positions with respect to the sight of man, says: "For this reason a body is no more colored than destitute of color." And a little above he writes thus, word ...

— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch