Pactolus

[ pak-toh-luhs ]

/ pækˈtoʊ ləs /

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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 Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863|Various
The Pactolus was a river in Maeonia, famous on account of the quantity of gold it washed down.
The Aeneid of Virgil|Virgil
Each drop is like the River Pactolus, whose sands were of gold.
The Art of Entertaining|M. E. W. Sherwood
Their 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 Bucke

It was not for water—at least not for the waters of any other stream than that of Pactolus—that the world came to Baden.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 33, November 1877|Various