1And so, when he had put him in custody and the commander of the guards had asked how he wished him to be kept, 'Like the fiercest lion,' he said, 'or the most savage elephant': for he had not yet decided whether to spare him or not. 2There came to Eumenes, moreover, both kinds of people: those who out of hatred wished to feast their eyes on his downfall, and those who because of old friendship wanted to talk with him and console him, and many too who were eager to see what he looked like, the man whom they had feared for so long and so greatly, on whose ruin they had placed their hope of victory.
3But Eumenes, when he had been in chains for some time, said to Onomarchus, who held the chief command of the guard, that he wondered why he was being kept like this for the third day now: for it did not befit Antigonus' good sense to treat a defeated man so: why did he not order him either to be killed or to be released? 4When Eumenes seemed to Onomarchus to be speaking too defiantly, 'What? 4You,' he said, 'if you had that spirit, why did you not fall in battle rather than come into the power of your enemy?' 5To him Eumenes replied: 'Would indeed that it had happened!
5But it did not happen because I never engaged with a stronger man: for I have never crossed arms with anyone without his yielding to me.' 5Nor was this false: for he fell not through the valour of his enemies but through the treachery of his friends. 5For he was of dignified bearing and firm in strength for enduring toil, and not so much large in body as handsome in shape.