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What does Alpheus mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Alpheus? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. (Greek) A river in Hades.
  2. (Greek) The god/personification of the river Alpheus.
  3. A male given name, of mostly historical usage.
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She was transformed into a stream after rejecting the advances of the river god Alpheus and is well known on the island of Sicily, which was then ruled by the Greeks.
Close by these stables rushed a torrent, or rather a river, the alpheus.
When the day was over, alpheus called to him his foster-child.
It was the river alpheus that Hercules turned through the Augean stables.
The snapping shrimp of the genus Alpheus snap their claws to create a shock wave that stuns prey.
Then they reached Pherae where Diocles lived, who was son to Ortilochus and grandson to Alpheus.

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