River Pactolus
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Pactolus · the Pactolus river
spoken of as
1 expressionthe Pactolus river1 mention
Hellenica (Greek)
And their commander told the leader of the baggage-train to cross the Pactolus river and encamp, while the horsemen themselves, getting sight of the camp-followers on the side of the Greeks, scattered for plunder, killed a large number of them.
in the texts
Cyropaedia
River where Croesus's coalition is assembling.
This army, they said, was being mustered at the River Pactolus, but it was their intention to advance to Thymbrara, where even to-day is the rendezvous of the king’s barbarians from the interior.
And even now his wife, I am told, has taken up his body for burial, placed it in the carriage in which she herself used to ride, and brought it to some place here by the River Pactolus.
Hellenica
A river near Sardis across which the Persian baggage train is ordered to encamp, and near which the Persian cavalry raids the Greek camp-followers before the battle.
And their commander told the leader of the baggage-train to cross the Pactolus river and encamp, while the horsemen themselves, getting sight of the camp-followers on the side of the Greeks, scattered for plunder, killed a large number of them.