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Acis

also: Symaethian hero

A handsome Sicilian youth, son of Faunus and the nymph Symaethis, beloved of Galatea and killed by Polyphemus, then turned into a river.

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The Festivals poetry · 1 mention
Metamorphoses poetry · 4 mentions

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