Pactolus
Americannoun
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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 ● Aug. 24, 2012
Not far off was the Pactolus Torrent, which once was noted for its gold-rich sands.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bacchus told him to go wash in the source of the river Pactolus and he would lose the fatal gift.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Every will that was to be proved, every marriage within the forbidden degrees, had to pass under their eyes, and from their courts streams richer than Pactolus flowed into Wolsey’s coffers.
From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by J.A. Froude
Could Pison or Pactolus old Eclipse our little stream to-night?
From A Century of Emblems by G. S. Cautley
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