Ionic Sea

stone, and flows underground for a space. Virgil gives the fable of the Alpheus as follows: “Stretched in front of the Sicanian bay lies an island;... men called the place of old Ortygia. Fame way says that hither Alpheus, river of Elis, forced his hidden beneath the sea, who now through the mouth of thy fountain, Arethusa, mingles with the waves of Sicily.” (yEneid 3. 692-6.) Alpinag Valles. See Alps. ch007.xhtml a 31