[1506] ἐγγενεῖς your kinswomen as they are （where in prose we should have οὔσας added）. The word was full of meaning for an Attic audience, who would think of Creon as placed by Oedipus in the position of ἐπίτροπος （guardian） and κύριος （representative before the law） of the unmarried girls who are here viewed as orphans （1505）; their brothers not being of age. Cp. Isaeus 5.10; Dem. 46.18.
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