The Midas Touch
After Midas of Phrygia did him a favour, Dionysius told him to name his own reward. Midas requested that everything he touched turn to gold, forgetting that this would include his food. Unable to eat, he begged for a cure, and was told to bathe in the River Pactolus, which coincidentally was where Croesus found his inexhaustible supply of gold.
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