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|lshtext=<b>Alphēus</b>: (trisyl.) or Alphēŏs, i, m., = Ἀλφειός,<br /><b>I</b> the [[chief]] [[river]] in the [[Peloponnesus]], [[now]] Rufia. It rises in the [[southern]] [[part]] of [[Arcadia]], not [[far]] from [[Asea]], unites [[with]] the [[Eurotas]], and [[then]] losing itself under [[ground]], makes its [[appearance]] [[again]] in [[Megalopolis]]. It [[afterwards]] flows, in a [[north]]-[[west]] [[direction]], [[through]] [[Arcadia]] to [[Elis]], and [[then]] turns [[west]] from [[Olympia]], and falls [[into]] the Ionian Sea. At its [[mouth]] [[there]] [[was]] a [[grove]] [[consecrated]] to [[Diana]] or Alphiusa (Mann. [[Greece]], 467 sq. 503). Its [[disappearance]] under [[ground]] gives [[occasion]] for the [[fable]] [[that]] it flows under the [[sea]], and appearing [[again]] in Sicily, mingles [[with]] the waters of [[Arethusa]].—Hence personified as the [[lover]] of the [[nymph]] [[Arethusa]], Ov. M. 2, 250; 5, 599; id. Am. 3, 6, 29 (cf. Verg. E. 10, 1 sqq.).—Hence. Alphēus, a, um. adj., = Ἀλφεῖος, of or pertaining to the [[Alpheus]]: Alpheae [[Pisae]], founded by a [[colony]] from [[Pisa]], in [[Elis]], on the [[river]] [[Alpheus]], Verg. A. 10, 179: Alpheae ripae, Claud. B. Get. 575.

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