[630] πόλεως Most of the MSS. have μέτεστι τῆσδ᾽ οὐχί. Had they μέτεστι τῆσδ᾽ οὐ （which appears only in a few inferior MSS.） we should hardly be warranted in ejecting τῆσδ᾽: but, having the choice, we may safely prefer μέτεστιν οὐχὶ to μέτεστι τῆσδ᾽ οὐ. “I have some right in Thebes, as well as you.” Creon speaks not as a brother of Iocasta, but as a Theban citizen who denies that “the city belongs to one man” （Soph. Ant. 737）. Plat. Laws 768b “δεῖ δὲ δὴ καὶ τῶν ἰδίων δικῶν κοινωνεῖν κατὰ δύναμιν ἅπαντασ᾽ ὁ γὰρ ἀκοινώνητος ὢν ἐξουσίας τοῦ συνδικάζειν ἡγεῖται τὸ παράπαν τῆς πόλεως οὐ μέτοχος εἶναι.”
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