(He was beloved by the nymph Galatea, and Polyphemus the Cyclop, jealous of
him, crushed him under a huge rock. His blood gushing forth from under the rock was changed by
the nymph into the river Acis or Acinius at the foot of mount Aetna. This story does not occur
any where else, and is perhaps no more than a happy fiction suggested by the manner in which
the little river springs forth from under a rock.