Paktolos — a small river of Lydia, which flows down from Mount Tmolus in a northern direction, and, after…
Ancient Greek word, found 18 times in the texts on Socratos.
Herodotus, Histories 5.101.2: … εριέσχατα νεμομένου τοῦ πυρός, καὶ οὐκ ἔχοντες ἐξήλυσιν ἐκ τοῦ ἄστεος, συνέρρεον ἔς τε τὴν ἀγορὴν καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν Πακτωλὸν ποταμόν, ὅς σφι ψῆγμα χρυσοῦ καταφορέων ἐκ τοῦ Τμώλου διὰ μέσης τῆς ἀγορῆς ῥέει καὶ ἔπειτα ἐς τὸν Ἕρμον ποταμ …
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1300: ἢ ὅτε καλὰ νάοντος ἐπʼ ὀφρύσι Πακτωλοῖο
Sophocles, Philoctetes 392: ἃ τὸν μέγαν Πακτωλὸν εὔχρυσον νέμεις,