Crossword-Solution: BARSINE 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

After the murder of Roxana and her son, a movement was made to raise to the throne Heracles, son of Darius's daughter, Barsine, he being the sole surviving offspring of Alexander, though a bastard; but Cassander, perceiving the danger, conspired for the destruction of the young prince, and the latter was poisoned or strangled by the treacherous Polysperchon.

Could higher estate persuade such disbelief? Barsine, now disburden of its store The old brass coffer in my inner house-- The gems, the flower-striped silks, the mousse-lines Worn by such royal girls of Babylon; So rare a satrap as we do devise Must be as Babylonish as her earth.

Greeks know not how to use Layers of denial--you Persian, can you say? _BARSINE, attiring DANAË in the new garments._ These silken trousers tied above the knees, Yet falling to the feet, are first.

Neither his mother Olympias, domineering and masterful as she was, nor his first mistress Barsine the widow of Memnon, nor his wife Roxana of whom he is said to have been enamoured, nor the Persian princess Statira to whom he gave his hand out of policy, could boast that they ever influenced by one hairsbreadth the direction of his sovereign will.