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1. Charles Short, Charlton T. Lewis, A Latin Dictionary alphabetic letter A, entry A^lyzi^a
   Byz., a small town in Acarnania with a temple dedicated to Hercules, now Kandili: (17.48)

2. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter D
   Embassies were sent to Acarnania and Peloponnesus to counteract Philip's schemes in those quarters (Dem. Phil. (14.58)

3. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter D
   When Popillius in B. C. 170 went as ambassador to the Aetolians, and several statesmen were of opinion that Roman garrisons should be stationed in Acarnania, Diogenes opposed their advice, and succeeded in inducing Popillius not to send any soldiers into Acarnania. (14.09)

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1. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter B, entry 4685
   poet; son of a profligate, ‘mad Jack’ Byron (1756-1791), late of the guards, by his second wife (m. at Bath, 1785), Catherine Gordon (d. 1811), of Gicht, Aberdeen, an hysterical Scotch heiress; born in London, after his father had dissipated his mother's fortune in France; hopelessly lame in both feet; removed to Aberdeen, where his mother took lodgings, having an income (under trust) of 135l., afterwards of 190l. a year; lost his father in August 1791, who, having fled from his creditors to France, died at Valenciennes; alternately petted and abused by his mother; taught the bible by his nurse, May Gray; educated at Aberdeen grammar school, 1794-8; unexpectedly became heir-presumptive to the barony in consequence of the fifth baron's grandson falling in action in Corsica, 1794; succeeded to title and encumbered estates, 1798; taken to the family seat of Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, 1798; put under the guardianship of the fifth Earl of Carlisle, a distant relative; sent to private schools, Newstead Abbey being let, 1799; wrote lampoons, 1799, and love verses, 1800; at Harrow, 1801-5, where he proved himself a poor scholar, a considerable reader, and a good boxer and batsman; proposed to Mary Anne Chaworth, heiress of Annesley Hall, Nottinghamshire, who rejected him, 1803; at Trinity College, Cambridge, October 1805-May 1806, May 1807-May 1808; M.A. July 1808; at Cambridge read much history and fiction, and practised boxing and swimming, but kept low company and lived extravagantly; got deeply in debt, the income (500l.) allowed him by the court of chancery being inadequate for his position and expectations; his chief college friend, John Cam Hobhouse, printed privately at Newark, October 1806, a small volume of poems by Byron entitled ‘Fugitive Pieces,’ which Byron reprinted with changes in January 1807, and published, with further changes, in the summer of 1807, as ‘Hours of Idleness’; his book denounced by the ‘Edinburgh Review,’ January 1808; settled at Newstead, July 1808, where he entertained company in theatrical imitation of Medmenham; took his seat in the House of Lords, March 1809; issued ‘English Bards and Scotch Reviewers’ (1809), which soon ran into its fifth edition; sailed with Hobhouse from Falmouth, July 1809; rode from Lisbon to Cadiz; sailed from Cadiz, visiting Gibraltar and Malta on the way, to North Greece; rode through Acarnania to Athens, 24 Dec.; addressed ‘Maid of Athens’ to Theresa Macri, his hostess's daughter; sailed, 5 March 1810, from Athens to Smyrna, Ephesus, the Troad, swimming the Hellespont (3 May), and Constantinople; parted company with Hobhouse; sailed, 14 July, for Athens; travelled in the Morea; wintered in Athens; reached Portsmouth, July 1811; took London lodgings, October 1811; spoke twice in the House of Lords, February and April 1812; published ‘Childe Harold,’ cantos i. and ii., March 1812; made the acquaintance of Thomas Moore; proposed to Anne Isabella, daughter of Sir Robert Milbanke, but was rejected, 1812; tried to sell Newstead, September 1812; injured his constitution by devices to avoid corpulency; published a succession of poems, 1813-16; annoyed by the attentions of Lady Caroline Lamb, 1813; proposed again to Miss Milbanke, September 1814; married her 2 Jan. 1815; took the additional name of Noel, April; made his will, July; much importuned by his creditors; sold his library, November; frequented the theatre and theatrical suppers; accused, 8 Jan. 1816, of insanity by his wife, who left him, 15 Jan.; signed a deed of separation and withdrew to the continent, April; travelled through Belgium and the Rhine country to Geneva; travelled in Switzerland with Shelley in June, and with Hobhouse in September; wrote ‘Childe Harold,’ canto iii. (0.54)