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Pactolus
[ pak-toh-luhs ]
noun
- a small river in Asia Minor, in ancient Lydia: famous for the gold washed from its sands.
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It was found mixed with the sands of the Pactolus and other rivers.
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The Pactolus was a river in Maeonia, famous on account of the quantity of gold it washed down.
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Each drop is like the River Pactolus, whose sands were of gold.
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Their Pactolus hath long since ceased to yield them gold,208 and the treasures to recover them their dying glories.
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It was not for water—at least not for the waters of any other stream than that of Pactolus—that the world came to Baden.
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