b"Aristotle on Midas, and then Ovid on Midas (Golding's translation), which is the just-so story of how the river\\xa0Pactolus\\xa0came to run with gold (or actually electrum), leading to the first coining of money under Croesus, with a little fumbling in class about what it was that Archimedes found bathing (that objects submerged in water displace their own volume)."