Acis, crushing him to death. Galatea then turned his blood into sparkling waters as it trickled from under the rock, so creating the stream on Etna that bore his name, the Sicilian river Acis. She turned her lover himself into the horned god of the stream. He retained his original features except that he was larger and his face a deep blue.

This version of the tale now occurs nowhere earlier than in Ovid's work and might perhaps have been a fiction invented by the poet, "suggested by the manner