A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1871)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 432
420 ANCIENT MYTHS ' A'eis. Son of Faunus and Symaetliis, loved by the nymph Gal- atea. Polyphemus the Cyclop, being jealous of Acis, crushed him beneath a huge rock. The nymph changed his blood into the river Acis or Acinius at the foot of Mount ^tna. Actse'on. Son of Aristseus and Autonoe.… … Actaeon lower world by Hercules. (British Museum.) Ado'nis. Son of Cinyras by his daughter Smyrna or Myrrha. He was very beautiful, and be- loved by Venus (Aphrodite). He was wounded in the chase by a boar so that he died. The anemone sprung from his blood. Venus so mourned his death that the gods…
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