| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 5666 |
| AUTHOR: | George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (17881824) |
| QUOTATION: | There were his young barbarians all at play; There was their Dacian mother: he, their sire, Butcherd to make a Roman holiday! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 141. |
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