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† alpha, n. indecl., = ἄλφα, the Greek name of the first letter of the alphabet: hoc discunt ante alpha et beta, before their letters, before they learn to read, Juv. 14, 209.
Hence, prov., the first in any thing (as beta was the second): alpha paenulatorum … beta togatorum, Mart. 5, 26; so by character instead of name: Ego sum Α et Ω, principium et finis, Vulg. Apoc. 1, 8; 21, 6; 22, 13.
alphăbētum, i, n., = ἄλφα βῆγα, the alphabet, Tert. Haeret. 50; Hier. Ep. 125.
* Alphēĭăs, ădis, f., = Ἀλφηιάς (sc. nympha), the nymph and fountain Arethusa, which unites its waters with the river Alpheus, Ov. M. 5, 487.
* Alphĕsĭboea, ae, f., = Ἀλφεσιβοια, daughter of the Arcadian king Phegeus, and wife of Alcmœon, who afterwards left her and married Callirrhoē. When her broth ers slew him on this account, she, from anger at the murder, killed them, Prop. 1, 15, 19.
Alphēus (trisyl.) or Alphēŏs, i, m., = Ἀλφειός, 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.
† alphus, i, m., = ἀλφός, a white spot upon the skin, Cels 5, 28, 19; Prisc. de Diaeta, 15.