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Alpheias

a name by which Ovid (Ov. Met. 5.487) designates the nymph of the Sicilian well Arethusa, because it was believed to have a subterraneous communication with the river Alpheius, in Peloponnesus.

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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 5.487
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