in Ancient Geography, a river of Lydia, called Chrysaorhons, from its rolling down golden sand, according to Herodotus, Plutarch, Pliny, and Strabo; rising in Mount Tmolus (Strabo). From this river Croesus is thought to have had all his riches. In Strabo's time it ceased to roll down any. It ran through Sardis; after which it fell into the Hermus, and both together into the Aegean sea at Phocaea in Ionia. A river celebrated by Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, Lycophron, Horace, Appollonius.