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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How to use Pactolus in a sentence
It was found mixed with the sands of the Pactolus and other rivers.
The Pactolus was a river in Maeonia, famous on account of the quantity of gold it washed down.
The Aeneid of Virgil | VirgilEach drop is like the River Pactolus, whose sands were of gold.
The Art of Entertaining | M. E. W. SherwoodTheir Pactolus hath long since ceased to yield them gold,208 and the treasures to recover them their dying glories.
Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. II of II) | Charles BuckeIt 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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