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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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