E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Narses (2 syl.).
A Roman general against the Goths; the terror of children. (473–568.) (See BOGIE.)
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“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.
