[Footnote 17: In this age there were three warriors of the
name of Narses, who have been often confounded, (Pagi,
Critica, tom. ii. p. 640:) 1. A Persarmenian, the brother of
Isaac and Armatius, who, after a successful action against
Belisarius, deserted from his Persian sovereign, and
afterwards served in the Italian war. - 2. The eunuch who
conquered Italy. - 3. The restorer of Chosroes, who is
celebrated in the poem of Corippus (l. iii. 220 - 327) as
excelsus super omnia vertico agmina .... habitu modestus
.... morum probitate placens, virtute verendus; fulmineus,
cautus, vigilans, &c.]