ὥς τις κ.τ.λ.: as if I were a young kinswoman of your own, appealing to you, the eldest of my house, for protection. The words are hardly so strong as "like daughter to father"; and though σὸν is addressed to the coryphaeus (cp. on 175), this sense would be less fitting. So Creon imagines his niece Antigone appealing to the sacred ties of kinship ( Ant. 487 “Ζηνὸς ἑρκείου”; 658 “ἐφυμνείτω Δία ι ξύναιμον”).
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part II: The Oedipus Coloneus. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1899.
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