John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
5666 George Gordon Noel Byron
| NUMBER: | 5666 |
| AUTHOR: | George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| QUOTATION: | There were his young barbarians all at play; There was their Dacian mother: he, their sire, Butcher’d to make a Roman holiday! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 141. |