1Thus Eumenes, at forty-five years of age, after he had, from his twentieth year, as we have shown above, served Philip for seven years and held the same place with Alexander for thirteen, during which he had for one year commanded a cavalry wing, and after the death of Alexander the Great had led armies as a general and partly repulsed, partly killed the greatest commanders, met such an end to his life, captured not by Antigonus' valour but by the perjury of the Macedonians. 2How high an opinion of him was held by all those who after Alexander the Great were called kings can very easily be judged from this: that none of them, while Eumenes lived, was called king, but governor, yet the same men, immediately after his death, assumed royal attire and title, and did not choose to make good what they had proclaimed at the start, that they were preserving the kingdom for Alexander's children, and with this one champion removed they revealed what they really thought.
3The leaders in this crime were Antigonus, Ptolemy, Seleucus, Lysimachus and Cassander. 4Antigonus, however, handed over the dead Eumenes to his relatives for burial. 4They buried him with a soldier's honourable funeral, the whole army escorting him, and took care that his bones were carried to Cappadocia to his mother and his wife and children.