The corpus record — Latin

Acis1

Acis1 · m

a river in Sicily

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

1. ācis — Lewis & Short

ācis, ĭdis, m., = *)=akis,

I a river in Sicily, which rises in Mount Aetna, and falls into the sea; now Fiume di Taci, Ov. F. 4, 468; Sil. 14, 221; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 332 al.—Hence,

II A river-god, acc. to the myth, son of Faunus, beloved by Galatea on account of his beauty, Ov. M. 13, 750 sq.

2. Acis — Lewis & Short

Acis, ĭdis, f.,

I one of the Cyclades, i. q. Siphnus, Plin. 4, § 66.

In the wild

Acidum Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 6.3.53
Acidis Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.757
Acidis Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.787

Where it came from

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