420 EUMENES.

of it. He accordingly proceeded to dispose of the chief cities among his own friends, and made captains of garri- sons, judges, receivers, and other officers, of such as he thought fit himself, Perdiccas not at all interposing. Eumenes, however, still continued to attend upon Per- diccas, both out of respect to him, and a desire not to be absent from the royal family. But Perdiccas, believing he was able enough to attain his own further objects without assistance, and that the country he left behind him might stand in need of an active and faithful governor, when he came into Cilicia, dismissed Eumenes, under color of sending him to his command, but in truth to secure Armenia, which was on its frontier, and was unsettled through the practices of Neoptolemus. Him, a proud and vain man, Eumenes exerted himself to gain by personal attentions ; but to balance the Macedonian foot, whom he found insolent and self-willed, he contrived to raise an army of horse, excusing from tax and contribution all those of the coun- try that were able to serve on horseback, and buying up a number of horses, which he distributed among such of his own men as he most confided in, stimulating the cour- age of his new soldiers by gifts and honors, and inuring their bodies to service, by frequent marching and exer- cising ; so that the Macedonians were some of them as- tonished, others overjoyed, to see that in so short a time he had got together a body of no less than six thousand three hundred horsemen. But when Craterus and Antipater, having subdued the Greeks, advanced into Asia, with intentions to quell the power of Perdiccas, and were reported to design an inva- sion of Cappadocia, Perdiccas, resolving himself to march against Ptolemy, made Eumenes commander-in-chief of all the forces of Armenia and Cappadocia, and to that pur- pose wrote letters, requiring Alcetas and Neoptolemus to