Life of Eumenes, 1.13.4

Plutarch  translated by Bernadotte Perrin

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4So they erected a royal tent, and a throne in it which they dedicated to Alexander, and there they met for deliberation on matters of highest importance.

And now, as they advanced into the interior of the country,[30] Peucestas,[31] who was a friend of Eumenes, met them with the other satraps, and they joined their forces, so that the number of their men and the splendour of their equipment raised the spirits of the Macedonians. But the leaders themselves had been made unmanageable by their exercise of power, and effeminate by their mode of life, after the death of Alexander,

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Notes

  • [30] In 317 B.C., against Antigonus, who was in Mesopotamia. He had received the satrapy of Susiana.

  • [31] One of the most distinguished officers of Alexander, who had been made satrap of Persia during Alexander's lifetime.

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