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However, Perdiccas felt confident of carrying out his projects by himself, and thought that the country they had left behind them needed an efficient and faithful guardian, and therefore sent Eumenes back from Cilicia, ostensibly to his own satrapy, but really to reduce to obedience the adjacent country of Armenia, which had been thrown into confusion by Neoptolemus.One of the principal officers of Alexander, to whom Armenia had been assigned as a province. Cf. chapter i. 3.
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Accordingly, although Neoptolemus was a victim of ostentation and empty pride, Eumenes tried to constrain him by personal intercourse; then, finding that the Macedonian men-at-arms were conceited and bold, he raised a force of cavalry as a counterpoise to them, by offering the natives of the country who were able to serve as horsemen immunity from contributions and tributes,
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and by distributing horses that he had bought among those of his followers in whom he placed most confidence; the spirits of these men, too, he incited by honours and gifts, and developed their bodies by exercise and discipline; so that a part of the Macedonians were amazed, and a part emboldened, when they saw that in a short time he had assembled about him no fewer than sixty-three hundred horsemen.
5.1
And when CraterusOne of the ablest of Alexander’s officers, who, in the division of the empire that followed Alexander’s death, was made ruler, in common with Antipater, of Macedonia and Greece. and Antipater, after overpowering the Greeks,In the battle of Crannon, Aug. 7, 322, which put an end to the revolt of the Greeks and the war called the Lamian war. were crossing into AsiaIn 321 B.C. to overthrow the power of Perdiccas, and were reported to be planning an invasion of Cappadocia, Perdiccas, who was himself heading an expedition against Ptolemy,Now governor of Egypt. appointed Eumenes commander of the forces in Armenia and Cappadocia with plenary powers.
