Alpheus
Frieze-Dennison Vergil
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Alphea Proper-name adjective: neuter nominative plural, Proper-name adjective: neuter vocative plural, Proper-name adjective: feminine nominative singular, Proper-name adjective: feminine ablative singular, Proper-name adjective: feminine vocative singular, Proper-name adjective: neuter accusative plural of 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 (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.
MYTILENAEUS (Ἀλφειός Μυτιληναῖος), the author of about twelve epigrams in the Greek Anthology, some of which seen to point out the time when he wrote. In the seventh epigram (Jacobs) he refers to the state of the Roman empire, as embracing almost all the known world; in the ninth he speaks of the restored and flourishing city of Troy; and in the tenth he alludes to an epigram by Antipater Sidonius. Now Antipater lived under Augustus, and Troy had received great favours from Julius Caesar and Augustus. (Strab. xiii. p.889.) Hence it is not improbable that Alpheus wrote under Augustus. It is true that in the fourth epigram he addresses a certain Macrinus, but there is no reason to suppose that this was the emperor Macrinus. Another difficulty has been started, on the ground that other. the eleventh epigram was inscribed, as we learn from Pausanias (8.52.3), on the statue of Philopoemen in Tegea, and that it is very improbable that such a statue should have stood without an inscription till the time of Alpheus. But the simple fact is, that no reason can be discovered for attributing this epigram to Alpheus. (Jacobs, Anthol. Graec. xiii. p. 839.) [P.S]
(Ἀλφειός). The chief river of the Peloponnesus, rising in the southeastern part of Arcadia, flowing through Arcadia and Elis, not far from Olympia, and falling into the Ionian Sea. In some parts of its course the river flows underground; and this subterranean descent gave rise to the story about the river-god Alpheus and the nymph Arethusa. The latter, pursued by Alpheus, was changed by Artemis into the fountain of Arethusa in the island of Ortygia at Syracuse; but the god continued to pursue her under the sea, and attempted to mingle his stream with the fountain in Ortygia.
- Paus. 3.8.4, Paus. 5.7.1-3, Paus. 6.21.4, 5
- sources and upper course: Paus. 8.44.3, 4, Paus. 8.54.1
- often vanishes under ground: Paus. 8.54.2
- tributaries: Paus. 5.7.1, Paus. 8.34.5, Paus. 8.35.1, 3
- dearest of rivers to Zeus: Paus. 5.13.11
- ashes of victims kneaded with its water: Paus. 5.13.11
- wild olive first grew on its banks: Paus. 5.14.3
- women forbidden to cross it on certain days: Paus. 5.6.7
- loves Arethusa: Paus. 5.7.2ff.
- flows through Adriatic to Ortygia: Paus. 8.54.3
- loves Artemis: Paus. 6.22.9ff.
- images: Paus. 5.10.7, Paus. 5.24.7
- altars: Paus. 5.14.6
- Leucippus keeps hair long for: Paus. 8.20.3
- Apollo at the: Apollod. 1.9.11
- diverted by Herakles into the cattleyard of Augeas: Apollod. 2.5.4, Apollod. 2.5.5
- distinguished at Thermopylae: Hdt. 7.227