θυμοῦ τ̓. θυμῶν (cr. n.) is indeed nearer to the “θυμὸν” of the MSS., since Sophocles would write it “ΘΥΜΟΝ”: but, though the plur. “θυμοί” is common enough in prose (as=‘fits of passion’), it never occurs in Tragedy. The gen. depends on “μετανεγνώσθη” as a verb of ‘desisting’ or ‘withdrawing’ from (cp. “μεταστῆναί τινος”). The dat. Ἀτρείδαις depends on “μετανεγνώσθη θυμοῦ” as implying “κατηλλάχθη” or “ξυνέγνω”. Cp. 774: I. Il. 283“Ἀχιλλῆι μεθέμεν χόλον”: Od. 21. 377“μέθιεν χαλεποῖο χόλοιο ι Τηλεμάχῳ.— νεικέων”: for the synizesis, cp. 702 “πελαγέων”.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part VII: The Ajax. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1907.
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