in fabulous history, the son of Faunus and Simethis, was a beautiful shepherd of Sicily, who being beloved by Galatea, Polyphemus the giant was so enraged, that he dashed out his brains against a rock; after which Galatea turned him into a river, which was called by his name.

(Ovid, Thocritus); a river of Sicily, running from a very cold spring, in the woody and shady foot foot of mount Ætna, eastward into, and not much above a mile from, the sea, along green and pleasant banks, with the speed of an arrow, from which it takes its name. It is now called Aci Iaci, or Chinci, according to the different Sicilian dialects; Antonine calls it Acius. Also the name of a hamlet at the mouth of the Aci.