ἔχειν, to have (troubles), μέλλειν, sc. “ἕξειν” (cp. 75), to be in expectation of them. κοινὰ, sc. “ἐστίν”, are kindred things. For this sense of “κοινός”, cp. O. T.261 n.: similarly ‘cognate’ things can be called “συγγενῆ”.—Others explain: (1) ‘It is all one’ whether sorrow is present or prospective. (2) ‘There are woes on both parts’ (that of Deianeira and that of Heracles), ‘for us to suffer or apprehend.’
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part V: The Trachiniae. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1902.
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