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A misunderstanding. the fons Acidalia is the spring where Venus' daughters (in some traditions), the Graces bathe. It has no known meaning. Virgil, and Virgil only, refers to Venus or mater Acidalia (i.e. Venus or mother of Acidalia). Servius speculates that Acidalia is connected to a Greek word for arrow, the Greek word he is referring to being the ακίδες (akides), lit. "splinters" of Cupid. Acidalia or Cidalia is Latin, not Greek though.

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