Pactolus

American  

[pak-toh-luhs] / pækˈtoʊ ləs /

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.

From Literature

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.

From The Guardian

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.

From Washington Post

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.

From New York Times

As soon as Phœbus-Apollo, standing in his quadriga, had gilded to saffron the summits of fertile Mount Tmolus with his rays, the good people of Sardes were all astir, going and coming, mounting or descending the marble stairways leading from the city to the waters of the Pactolus, that opulent river whose sands Midas filled with tiny sparks of gold when he bathed in its stream.

From Project Gutenberg