Associations to the word «Pactolus»

Wiktionary

PACTOLUS, proper noun. A river, formerly an important feature of ancient Lydia and said to contain gold; now rising and emptying in modern Turkey.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats