Alpīnus, a, um, adj. [id.], of or pertaining to the Alps, Alpine: rigor, Ov. M. 14, 794: nives, Verg. E. 19, 47: Padus, which rises among the Alps, Valgius ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 11, 457: gentes,
dwelling upon the Alps
,
Alpine people
, Liv. 21, 43: Alpinus hostis,
the Gauls who crossed the Alps and invaded Italy
, Ov. F. 6, 358: Alpini mures,
marmots
, Plin. 8, 37, 55, 132.—Horace, on account of a bombastic line of the poet M. Furius Bibaculus, in relation to the Alps (Juppiter hibernas canā nive conspuit Alpes), calls him jestingly Alpinus, S. 1, 10, 36; cf. id. 2, 5, 41; Weich. Poët. Latin. 334 sq.
