Crossword-Solution: NARSES 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

For he that cannot possibly mend his own case, will do what he can, to impair another's; except these defects light upon a very brave, and heroical nature, which thinketh to make his natural wants part of his honor; in that it should be said, that an eunuch, or a lame man, did such great matters; affecting the honor of a miracle; as it was in Narses the eunuch, and Agesilaus and Tamberlanes, that were lame men.

The diary has this entry for February 16, 1836: 'Forster and Browning called, and talked over the plot of a tragedy, which Browning had begun to think of: the subject, Narses.

May it be!' But Narses was abandoned, and the more serious inspiration and more definite motive were to come later.

The wives and children of Narses were protected from violence and rapine, conveyed to a place of safety, and treated with every mark of respect and tenderness, that was due from a generous enemy to their age, their sex, and their royal dignity.

The secret motive of Narses, in this delay, had been to collect such a military force as might enable him, though sincerely desirous of peace, to negotiate with the greater weight and dignity.