Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto VI, Stanza 7.

Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious, Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius.

— Lord Byron on Character

What It Means

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About Lord Byron

George Gordon (Noel) Byron, 6th Baron Byron (January 22 1788 – April 19 1824), generally known as Lord Byron, was an English poet and leading figure in Romanticism. He was the father of the mathematician Ada Lovelace.