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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 148 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ACIS  , in See also:

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

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