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[[Pseudo-Plutarch]] in the [[De fluviis]] write that the river was initially called Chrysorrhoas (Χρυσορρόας; meaning "streaming with gold") because according to the legend, Chrysorrhoas (the son of [[Apollo]]) threw himself into the river.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0064%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DP%3Aentry+group%3D1%3Aentry%3Dpactolus-geo Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), Pactolus]</ref><ref name="De fluviis">[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0400:chapter=7 Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis, 7]</ref>
Later it was called Pactolus, from Pactolus, the son of [[Leucothea]], who during a festival of [[Aphrodite]] failed to recognize his own sister, [[Demodice]], and ravished her. Upon realizing what he had done, overwhelmed with grief, he threw himself into the river. Because of this the name of the river changed from Chrysorrhoas to Pactolus.<ref name="De fluviis"/>
==Legend==
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