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Pactolus

[ pak-toh-luhs ]

noun

  1. a small river in Asia Minor, in ancient Lydia: famous for the gold washed from its sands.


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Example Sentences

Bacchus told him to go wash in the source of the river Pactolus and he would lose the fatal gift.

Finally, tortured by his hateful gold, he raised his arms to the heavens and begged forgiveness and Bacchus sent him to the source of the River Pactolus to wash away his cursed blessing.

Levi Clemons, a retired Army staff sergeant from Pactolus, N.C., and a former commander of the Pitt County chapter of Disabled American Veterans, said he wanted to pay his respects to the man who had stood by him and his comrades for years.

Alan M. Harter, managing director of Pactolus Private Wealth Management, said his firm was putting together private equity deals in many industries, with one or two families leading each.

Sometimes he besought her to allow the flood of her hair to flow over her shoulders in a river of gold richer than the Pactolus, to encircle her brow with a crown of ivy and linden leaves like a Bacchante of Mount Mænalus, to lie, hardly veiled by a cloud of tissue finer than woven wind, upon a tiger-skin with silver claws and ruby eyes, or to stand erect in a great shell of mother-of-pearl, with a dew of pearls falling from her tresses in lieu of drops of sea-water.

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