The corpus record — Latin

Pactolus

Pactolus · m

a river in Lydia which was said to bring down golden sands

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Where it lives

Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
In Eutropium 2 · 2.78/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 2.45/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Elegiae 3 · 1.19/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Pactōlus — Lewis & Short

Pactōlus, i, m., = *paktwlo/s,

I a river in Lydia which was said to bring down golden sands, the mod. Sarabat, Verg. A. 10, 142; Plin. 5, 29, 30, § 110; Hyg. Fab. 191; Ov. M. 11, 142: Pactolus aureas undas agens, Varr. ap. Non. 243, 20.—Prov., of wealth: tibique Pactolus fluat, Hor. Epod. 15, 20; cf. Prop. 1, 14, 11; Juv. 14, 299.— Hence,

II Pactōlis, ĭdis, f. adj., of or belonging to the Pactolus: nymphae Pactolides, Ov. M. 6, 16.

In the wild

6 of 19 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.