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Galatea

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A nymph whom Polyphemus made love to, but who preferred Acis to him, whom therefore he made away with by crushing him under a rock, in consequence of which the nymph threw herself into the sea.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Galatea'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​g/galatea.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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