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Was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD, author of the Satires

Mentioned by Byron in 1810-11-14 and 1811-01-10: "Baron Haller, an architect and archaeologist, also had talent as an artist, and produced many drawings and landscape paintings of Greece." BLJ II-33n

One of the three Macri sisters of Athens

Byron dispatched men to Keratia for horses 1810-07-29. See 1810-11-26

See 1809-06-22 to Matthews and 1811-11-02 to Hobhouse for references to "hyacinths." BLJ II-14n

Mentioned by Byron in 1811-06-19, to ElLamb 1812-11-06. "Webster had married, in 1810, Lady Frances Caroline Annesley, daughter of Arthur, first Earl of Mountnorris and eighth Viscount Valentia." BLJ II-126n.

"Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839)was the daughter of the earl of Stanhope and the niece of William Pitt, for whom she had kept house. Brilliant, eccentric, and romantic, she traveled to the Levant in 1810 and ultimately established herself in a…

Mentioned in 1810-06-28 by Byron to his mother.

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "Cadiz, sweet Cadiz! is the most delightful town I ever beheld, very different from our English cities in every respect except cleanliness (and it is as clean as London) but still beautiful and full…

Unidentified. Mentioned by Byron in 1811-05-15