[1] Attested only here; form and meaning unexplained.
[2] cf. e)piwgh/ (epsilon 2502), i)wgh/ (iota 473), both glossed with ske/ph "covering, protection." The Supplement to LSJ registers u(piwgh/ as "place of refuge," citing Hesychius (i.e. his upsilon555, where the plural is glossed with the phrase u(pagwgai/, u(podromai\ th=s pe/tras dia\ ske/phn "burrows under a rock for shelter"). The word also occurs twice in Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon.