Ianthe

(3 syl.), to whom Lord Byron dedicated his Childe Harolde, was Lady Charlotte Harley, born 1809, and only eleven years old at the time.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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