Alphinus
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Alphīnus[1][2] (a nomine Arabico الفيل al-fīl, a Persico پيل pīl, i.e. elephantus)[3] erat in medio aevo miles in scaccorum ludo. Nunc in locum alphini denique nostra aetate sagittifer[4] (sive curvus, calvus, senex, cornutus, comes, stultus, morio, sagittarius, cursor, episcopus) successit.