Acis

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 36

Acis, in Ovid's account, a son of Faunus, beloved by the nymph Galatea, and through jealousy killed by Polyphemus the Cyclops. He was crushed under a huge rock, and his blood, as it gushed from beneath the rock, was changed by the nymph into the river Acis.

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