[Meaning] of [things] which happen with prayer, or of pestilential [events]; for Ieios [is] Apollo, to whom the purification of pestilences is offered.[1] Or because it is a refrain [sung] in common [to Apollo] and Artemis. Women utter such cries when they are in necessities, and they [Apollo and Artemis] hear the laments. Sophocles [writes]: "the women do not endure the troubles which call for cries of 'ie'": that is, they do not survive their pains.