EUMENES (c. B.e.), Macedonian general, was a native of Cardia in the Thracian Chersonesus. He was employed as private secretary by Philip II. of Macedon, and later by Alexander the Great, whom he accompanied into Asia. In the division of the empire on Alexander's death, Cappadocia and Paphlagonia were assigned to Eumenes ; but as they were not yet subdued, Leonnatus and Antigonus were charged by Perdiccas to put him in possession. Antigonus, however, disregarded the order, and Leonnatus in vain attempted to induce Eumenes to accompany him to Europe. Eumenes joined Perdiccas, who installed him in Cappadocia. When Craterus and Antipater, having reduced Greece, determined to pass into Asia and overthrow Perdiccas, their first blow was at Cappadocia. Craterus and Neoptolemus, satrap of Armenia, were defeated by Eumenes (32I); Neopto lemus was killed, and Craterus died of his wounds. After the murder of Perdiccas in Egypt by his own soldiers, the Macedonian generals condemned Eumenes to death, and charged Antipater and Antigonus with the execution of the order. Eumenes fled to Nora, on the confines of Cappadocia and Lycaonia, where he defended himself for more than a year. Antipater left the regency to his friend Polyperchon over the head of his son Cassander, who entered into an alliance with Antigonus and Ptolemy against Polyperchon, supported by Eumenes, who had escaped from Nora. In 318 Antigonus marched against him, and Eumenes withdrew east to join the satraps of the provinces beyond the Tigris. After two indecisive battles in Iran, Eumenes was betrayed by his own soldiers to Antigonus and put to death. He was an able soldier, who did his utmost to maintain the unity of Alexander's empire in Asia ; but his efforts were frustrated by the generals and satraps, who hated and despised the "secretary" and "foreigner." See Plutarch, Eumenes; Cornelius Nepos, Eumenes; Diod. Sic. xviii., xix.; Arrian, Anabasis, vii.; Quintus Curtius x. 4. 10; Justin xiii. 8; also MACEDONIAN EMPIRE.