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ACIS  , in

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Creek
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mythology, the son of
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Pan (
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Faunus) and the nymph Symaethis, a beautiful shepherd of
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Sicily, was the
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lover of the Nereid Galatea . His
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rival the Cyclops
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Polyphemus surprised them together, and crushed him to pieces with a
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rock . His
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blood, gushing forth from beneath, was metamorphosed by Galatea into the
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river bearing his name (now
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Fiume di Jaci), which was celebrated for the coldness of its
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waters (
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Ovid, Met. xiii . 750; Silius Italicus, Punica, xiv . 221) .

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