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Alexander : a history of the origin and growth of the art of war from ...

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644 DEATH OF HEPH^STION.for allowing him to eat a roast fowl <strong>and</strong> wash it down witha goblet <strong>of</strong>new wine.There had been a quarrel between Eumenes, <strong>the</strong> king's secretary,<strong>and</strong> Hephsestion ; but <strong>Alex<strong>and</strong>er</strong> had managed toreconcile <strong>the</strong> two.Eumenes had for seven years been Philip'ssecretary. For <strong>the</strong> thirteen years <strong>of</strong> <strong>Alex<strong>and</strong>er</strong>'s reign hefilled <strong>the</strong> same position to <strong>the</strong> king. History is apt to showus its heroes surrounded by <strong>the</strong>ir military family <strong>and</strong> lieutenants.The civil <strong>of</strong>ficers one more rarely hears about. And<strong>Alex<strong>and</strong>er</strong>'s Last Marches.yet, in moving such an army as <strong>Alex<strong>and</strong>er</strong>'s, what efficientmen <strong>the</strong>y must have been! Cornelius Nepos abundantlytestifies to Eumenes' ability, <strong>and</strong> he showed it after <strong>Alex<strong>and</strong>er</strong>'sdeath.After <strong>the</strong> mourning for Hephaestion had been prolongedfor many days, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> year was drawing to a close, Alexan-

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