(2 syl.). A Roman general against the Goths; the terror of
children. (473-568.) (See Bogie.)
“The name of Narses was the formidable sound with which the Assyrian
mothers were accustomed to terrify their infants.” —Gibbon: Decline
and Fall, etc., viii. 219.
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