Pactolus

The Pactolus was a river in Maeonia, famous on account of the quantity of gold it washed down.

The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor 70 BC-19 BC Virgil 1902

The Pactolus was a small river in ancient Lydia, what is now Turkey, famed for the gold that washed from its sands.

unknown title 2011

The Pactolus was a small river in ancient Lydia, what is now Turkey, famed for the gold that washed from its sands.

unknown title 2011

Pactolus was according to myth where King Midas washed away his golden touch. close window

Notes on 'Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire' 2007

Wine, like a new Pactolus, rolls through languishing humanity an intellectual gold.

Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire 2007

The armament was mustering on the banks of the Pactolus, and they were to push forward presently to Thymbrara (the place which is still the mustering-ground for all the Asiatic subjects of the Great King west of Syria), and orders had been issued to open a market there.

Cyropaedia 2007

Their general ordered the officer in charge of his baggage-train to cross the Pactolus and encamp, while his troopers, catching sight of stragglers from the

Hellenica 2007

Sint Craesi et Crassi licet, non hos Pactolus aureas undas agens eripiet unquam e miseriis.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

It was about the houses of these that revolved the sands of Pactolus, their fame exceeded that of the first men of

Satyricon 2007

Interesting, especially if of later insertion, and perhaps given the historical basis of the story in some monument on the Pactolus, known to Xenophon.

Cyropaedia 2007