Εὐμένης

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3.4 For they had a hereditary distrust of one another arising from political differences; and frequently Eumenes had been known to denounce Hecataeus when a tyrant and to exhort Alexander to restore its freedom to Cardia. Therefore at this time also Eumenes declined to go on the expedition against the Greeks, saying he was afraid that Antipater, who had long hated him, would kill him to please Hecataeus. Then Leonnatus took him into his confidence and revealed to him all his purposes.

3.5 Assistance to Antipater, namely, was what he alleged as a pretext for his expedition, but he really meant, as soon as he had crossed into Europe, to lay claim to Macedonia; and he showed certain letters from CleopatraThe sister of Alexander, widow, since 326 B.C., of the king of Epeirus. No less than six of Alexander’s generals sought her hand in marriage. in which she invited him to come to Pella and promised to marry him. But Eumenes, either because he was afraid of Antipater, or because he despaired of Leonnatus as a capricious man full of uncertain and rash impulses, took his own equipment and decamped by night.According to Nepos ( Eumenes, ii. 4), Leonnatus, failing to persuade Eumenes, tried to kill him. And he had three hundred horsemen, two hundred armed camp-followers, and in gold what would amount to five thousand talents of money.