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men, took no notice of Perdiccas's letters ; but Leonnatus with his army came down into Phrygia to the service of Eumenes. But being visited by Hecataeus, the tyrant of the Cardians, and requested rather to relieve Antipater and the Macedonians that were besieged in Lamia, he re- solved upon that expedition, inviting Eumenes to a share in it, and endeavoring to reconcile him to Hecataeus. For there was an hereditary feud between them, aris- ing out of political differences, and Eumenes had more than once been known to denounce Hecataeus as a tyrant, and to exhort Alexander to restore the Car- dians their liberty. Therefore at this time, also, he declined the expedition proposed, pretending that he feared lest Antipater, who already hated him, should for that reason and to gratify Hecataeus, kill him. Leonna- tus so far believed, as to impart to Eumenes his whole de- sign, which, as he had pretended and given out, was to aid Antipater, but in truth was to seize the kingdom of Macedon ; and he showed him letters from Cleopatra,* in which, it appeared, she invited him to Pella, with promises to marry him. But Eumenes, whether fear- ing Antipater, or looking upon Leonnatus as a rash, headstrong, and unsafe man, stole away from him by night, taking with him all his men, namely, three hun- dred horse, and two hundred of his own servants armed, and all his gold, to the value of five thousand talents of silver, and fled to Perdiccas, discovered to him Leon- natus's design, and thus gained great interest with him, and was made of the council. Soon after, Perdiccas, with a great army, which he led himself, conducted Eumenes into Cappadocia, and, having taken Ariarathes prisoner, and subdued the whole country, declared him governor

• Alexander's own sister ; at the Alexander of Epirus, Philip iva

celebration of whose marriage with killed.