(anc. geogr.), a river of Lydia, called Chryssorhoas, from its rolling down golden sand, according to Herodotus, Plutarch, Pliny, and Strabo; rising in mount Emolus (Strabo). From this river Cresus is thought to have had all his riches. In Stra- bo's time it ceased to roll down any. It ran through Sardes; after which it fell into the Hermus, and both together into the Ægean sea at Phocæa in Ionia. A river celebrated by Virgil, Ovid, Lucon, Lycophron, Horace, Apollonius.