cf. generally upsilon 657, upsilon 658.
[1] Same gloss in other lexica.
[2] If this neuter-plural phrase really is a quotation, the source is likely to be John Chrysostom, whose seven instances of it are the only ones attested before the Suda. (Note more generally, though, that u(/ptios is applied to flat terrain as early as Herodotus and Theophrastus. See LSJ s.v., IV.)
[3] Procopius, History of the Wars of Justinian 7.16.19 (web address 1); also in the Excerpta de legationibus of Constantine Porphyrogenitus. Totila (cf. tau 879) reminds Pelagius--the latter hoping to negotiate some relief from the king's siege of Rome in 546 CE--that the Sicilians had betrayed their Gothic administrators and welcomed the invading Byzantine army into their cities (late 535); cf. Kaldellis (412). On Pelagius, a deacon in Rome at the time and later pope, see alpha 1585 note.
[4] cf. Artemidorus 2.68.
[5] Greek Anthology 5.203.3 (Asclepiades); a dedication, with some double entendre, to Aphrodite by the hetaera Lysidice; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 45-46), (vol. II, 120-1), and another extract from this epigram at mu 1430.
[6] On the several senses of mu/wy, see mu 1430.