Information om | Engelska ordet PACTOLUS

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• Nicholas John Halpin, in his Oberon's Vision (1834), offered a complex and detailed interpretation of the fine points of Lyly's allegory, in which the Pactolus is the Tagus River in Portugal; the barber Motto is Philip II's secretary Antonio Pérez, who was banished for betraying royal secrets; Martius is the Duke of Medina Sedonia, while Mellicrates is the Duke of Alva; Eristus is Ruy Gomez de Libra; and Sophronia is Philip's daughter Isabella Clara Eugenia, among various other identifications.
• Felix Riesenberg, who served under Burnham, postulated that Pactolus Bank was the sunken location of Elizabeth Island, discovered by Sir Francis Drake's ship the Golden Hinde in 1578.
• In September 1813, Aylmer was appointed to the newly constructed HMS Pactolus, and in August 1814 was part of a small squadron under Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy comprising Ramillies, Dispatch, Terror and herself, which took part in the bombardment of Stonington, Connecticut.

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