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What does Pactolus mean?

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Proper noun
  1. A river, formerly an important feature of ancient Lydia and said to contain gold; now rising and emptying in modern Turkey.
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I will pour the waters of Pactolus through the valley of Briarfield.
The Pactolus takes but the sand-drifts from the hoards lost to use in the Tmolus.
He lurched out of the hotel, and went in the direction of the Pactolus claim.
The god directed him to go and bathe in the Pactolus, and he should be restored to his former condition.
And even now the sands of Pactolus glitter with grains of gold-dust.
It was found mixed with the sands of the Pactolus and other rivers.

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