Eum. 7.1Itaque cōpiās contrāxit, bellum adversus Antigonum comparāvit.And so he gathered forces and prepared war against Antigonus. Eum. 7.1Quod ūnā erant Macedonēs complūrēs nōbilēs, in eīs Peucestēs, quī corporis custōs fuerat Alexandrī, tum autem obtinēbat Persidem, et Antigenēs, cuius sub imperiō phalanx erat Macedonum, invidiam verēns (quam tamen effugere nōn potuit), sī potius ipse aliēnigena summī imperiī potīrētur quam aliquis Macedonum, quōrum ibi erat multitūdō, in prīncipiīs Alexandrī nōmine tabernāculum statuit in eōque sellam auream cum scēptrō ac diadēmate iussit pōnī eōque omnēs cottīdiē convenīre, ut ibi dē summīs rēbus cōnsilia caperentur, crēdēns minōre sē invidiā fore, sī speciē imperiī nōminisque simulātiōne Alexandrī bellum vidērētur administrāre.Because 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.
Eum. 7.2Quod effēcit.This he achieved. Eum. 7.3Nam cum nōn ad Eumenis prīncipia, sed ad rēgia convenīrētur atque ibi dē rēbus dēlīberārētur, quōdam modō latēbat, cum tamen per eum ūnum gererentur omnia.For 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.