Alphēos
masculine noun II declension

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Alpheus, 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

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Alpheum amnem qui Siculis confunditur undis || qua praeterlabitur Sicanios longe relegens Alpheos amores




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