1And so he gathered forces and prepared war against Antigonus. 1Because there were with him several Macedonian nobles, among them Peucestes, who had been Alexander's bodyguard but at that time held Persis, and Antigenes, under whose command was the Macedonian phalanx, he feared jealousy (which, however, he could not escape) if he, a foreigner, held supreme command rather than one of the Macedonians, of whom there was a great number there; so he set up a tent in Alexander's name at headquarters and ordered a golden chair with a sceptre and diadem to be placed in it, and all to meet there every day, so that counsels about the most important matters might be taken there, believing that he would incur less jealousy if he seemed to conduct the war under the appearance of Alexander's authority and the pretence of his name.
2This he achieved. 3For since they met not at Eumenes' headquarters but at the king's, and deliberated about affairs there, he was in a sense concealed, although everything was done through him alone.