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alphinus

ALPHINUS
, in ludo scacorum, persona, quam nostri le Fol vocant, Itali Alfino. Alanus in Parabolis : Sic inter schachos Alphinus inutilis extat,Inter aves bubo, etc. Pseudo-Ovidius lib. de Vetula, ubi de scacorum ludo : Sex species saltus exercent, sex quoque Scaci :Miles et Alpinus, Roccus, Rex, Virgo, Pedesque. Infra : Oblique salit Alphinus, etc. Alphilis dicitur in Gloss. MSS. Twingeri. Nostri vero Aufin vel Auphin nuncuparunt. Le Roman d'Alexandre MS. part. 2 : Roy, fierce, chevalier, auffin, roc et cornu,Furent fet de saphir, et si ot or molu. Miracula B. M. V. MSS. lib. 2 : Ne ja n'ara peon, n'Aufin,Roi, chevalier, fierge, ne roc, etc. Poema Vetulæ Gall. : Roi, roc, chevalier et Auphin,Fierge et peon, etc. Cujus vocis originem Sponius in notis ad Hist. Genev. pag. 406. recte prorsus arcessit a nomine Al-Phil, id est, elephas, quo hanc personam appellabant Orientales ; unde nostri tandem fil et fol dixerunt.

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