[Footnote 29: Procopius relates the whole series of this
second Gothic war and the victory of Narses, (l. iv. c. 21,
26 - 35.) A splendid scene. Among the six subjects of epic
poetry which Tasso revolved in his mind, he hesitated
between the conquests of Italy by Belisarius and by Narses,
(Hayley's Works, vol. iv. p. 70.)]