Plutus
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Plutus
from Greek ploutos wealth
Example Sentences
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Soon, they’ll be begging Plutus, the Greek god of wealth, to intervene.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2017
Plutus, the Greek god of wealth, did not have an easy life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2010
As the myth goes, Plutus wanted to grant riches only to the "the just, the wise, the men of ordered life."
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2010
In his story “Les Tentations ou Eros, Plutus et la Gloire” Baudelaire presents the Demon of Love as holding in his left hand a violin “which without doubt served to sing his pleasures and pains.”
From Devil Stories An Anthology by Various
So in like manner these lines from Theognis: "O Plutus, thou most beautiful and placid god! whilst I have thee, however bad I am, I can be regarded as good."
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
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