μυῖα,
Attic dialect μῦα [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.7.5, 9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: ἡ:— fly, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.469, 4.131, 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 32, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; carrion-fly, bluebottle, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.25, 31 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; gall-insect, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus [same place]: proverbial, μυίης θάρσος] Refs 4th c.BC+], of excessive boldness, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.570; ἐάν τις.. ὥσπερ μ. πρόσπτηται 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.11.5 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; δειπνεῖν ἄκλητος μ. a fly for coming to dinner uninvited, [[ 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 195.7 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐλέφαντα ἐκ μυίας ποιεῖν 'to make a mountain out of a molehill', [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Musc.Enc.” 12; μυῖα στρατιῶτις, μ. κύων, [prev. passage]; δραίνω μυῖ᾽ ὅσον 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 1.15. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II χαλκῆ μυῖα a game like blindman's-buff, [[ [prev. author] 9a, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 9.123 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; compare μυΐνδα.
__III used by peasants of bees, [[ 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 257.6 ] Refs]. (Cf. Lithuanian musià 'fly', Latin musca, etc.)