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ΑΙΤΝΑ (Βουνό) ΣΙΚΕΛΙΑ
Acis (Akis), a river of Sicily, on the eastern coast of the island,
and immediately at the foot of Aetna. It is celebrated on account of the mythological
fable connected with its origin, which was ascribed to the blood of the youthful
Acis, crushed under an enormous rock by his rival Polyphemus. (Ovid. Met. xiii.
750, &c.; Sil. Ital. xiv. 221-226; Anth. Lat. i. 148; Serv. ad Virg. Eel. ix.
39, who erroneously writes the name Acinius.) It is evidently in allusion to the
same story that Theocritus speaks of the sacred waters of Acis. (Akidos hieron
hudor, Idyll. i. 69.) From this fable itself we may infer that it was a small
stream gushing forth from under a rock; the extreme coldness of its waters noticed
by Solinus (Solin. 5. § 17) also points to the same conclusion. The last circumstance
might lead us to identify it with the stream now called Fiume Freddo, but there
is every appearance that the town of Acium derived its name from the river, and
this was certainly further south. There can be no doubt that Cluverius is right
in identifying it with the little river still called Fiume di Jaci, known also
by the name of the Acque Grandi, which rises under a rock of lava, and has a very
short course to the sea, passing by the modern town of Aci Reale (Acium). The
Acis was certainly quite distinct from the Acesines or Asines, with which it has
been confounded by several writers. (Cluver. Sicil. p. 115; Smyth's Sicily, p.
132; Ortolani, Diz. Geogr. p. 9; Ferrara, Descriz. dell' Etna, p. 32.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Acium, a small town on the E. coast of Sicily, mentioned only in the Itinerary
(Itin. Ant. p 87), which places it on the high road from Catana to Tauromenium,
at the distance of 9 M. P. from the former city. It evidently derived its name
from the little river Acis, and is probably identical with the modern Act Reale,
a considerable town, about a mile from the sea, in the neighbourhood of which,
on the road to Catania, are extensive remains of Roman Thermae. (Biscari, Viaggio
in Sicilia, p. 22; Ortolani, Diz. Geogr. p. 9.)
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