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
For Egypt did not acquire all this by taking money from the Persians and from Babylon, or by working mines, or by having a river Pactolus, bearing down gold-dust in its waters.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
The property was more usually ascribed to its tributary, the Pactolus, but there was no gold in either.
From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander
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