Pactolus

It was found mixed with the sands of the Pactolus and other rivers.

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

Each drop is like the River Pactolus, whose sands were of gold.

Their Pactolus hath long since ceased to yield them gold,208 and the treasures to recover them their dying glories.

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.