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alsidena, a kind of onion: Caepe genera apud Graecos alsidena, Plin. 19, 6, 32, § 101.

Alsĭensis, e, adj. [v. 2. Alsius], of or pertaining to the city of Alsium: in Alsiensi (sc. agro), Cic. Mil. 20: populus, Liv. 27, 38.

alsīnē, ēs, f., = ἀλσίνη, a luxuriant plant, perh. chickweed: Stellaria nemorum, Linn.: Alsine, quam quidam myosoton appellant, nascitur in lucis, unde et alsine dicta est, Plin. 27, 4, 8, § 23.

alsĭōsus, a, um, adj. [1. alsius], easily freezing, susceptible to cold: pecus, Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 6: Alsiosa (Habrotonum et Adonium) admodum sunt, Plin 21, 10, 34, § 60.

1. alsĭus or alsus, a, um, adj. [algeo], chilly, cold, cool (only once in Lucr. and twice in Cic.): alsia corpora, cold bodies, Lucr. 5, 1015.
The form alsus only in the comp. neutr.: Antio nihil quietius, nihil alsius, nihil amoenius, Cic. Att. 4, 8: Jam ἀποδυτηρίῳ nihil alsius, nihil muscosius, id. Q. Fr. 3, 1; cf Rudd. I. p. 179, n. 52.

2. Alsĭus, a, um, adj., belonging to the maritime city Alsium, in Etruria (Vell. 1, 14; cf. Mann. Ital. I. p 380): litus, Sil. 8, 476: tellus, Rutil. Itin. Anton. p. 300.