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==Legend==
According to legend, King [[Midas]] divested himself of the golden touch by washing himself in the river.<ref>Ovid, ''Met.'' XI.140-144.</ref> The historian [[Herodotus]] claimed that the gold contained in the sediments carried by the river was the source of the wealth of King [[Croesus]], son of Alyattes.
In Sophocles' Philoctetes, the chorus recognizes Gaia as ruler of the "golden stream Pactolus."<ref>{{cite web |
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