Alpheus

/ ælˈfiːəs /

noun

1. Greek myth a river god, lover of the nymph Arethusa. She changed into a spring to evade him, but he changed into a river and mingled with her

Example Sentences

Alpheus Mzolo is a traditional leader in the Table Mountain district - a landscape of acacia trees and small settlements dominated by a brooding flat-topped mountain, not to be confused with the more famous Table Mountain in Cape Town.

From BBC

The most distinctive feature of the bigclaw snapping shrimp Alpheus heterochaelis, a small coastal marine crustacean that lives in tropical and subtropical waters, is its snapping claw—a weapon the territorial animal frequently uses to battle invaders and defend its home.

From Scientific American

Privately, foes circulated a document with false gossip that Brandeis had aided legal efforts by Wilson to retrieve love letters he had written to a woman in Bermuda, according to Alpheus Thomas Mason in his book “Louis D. Brandeis: A Free Man’s Life.”

From Washington Post

Two of the earliest were his high school coach, Alpheus Lee Curtis, and Colonel Pete Sercer, the head of Air Force R.O.T.C. at the University of South Carolina, who guided him toward his first career, as a military lawyer, serving largely in Europe.

From New York Times

He told her he was the god of the river, Alpheus, and that he was following her only because he loved her.

From Literature