τίς θυμός, what impulse of passion, τίνες νόσοι, what pangs of frenzy ( Ai.59“φοιτῶντ᾽ ἄνδρα μανιάσιν νόσοις”). The words “ἢ τίνες νόσοι” are really parenthetical,—suggesting that the excited mind (“θυμός”) may have been also deranged; hence the verb can agree with “θυμός”, on which the chief stress falls.— ξυνεῖλε, corripuit, seized and carried off; cp. Thuc.2. 51（“ὁ λοιμὸς”) “πάντα ξυνῄρει”. Not, ‘destroyed her along with Heracles.’
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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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