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Plutarch here consulted another source, perhaps Duris: Anson 1977:
254–55; 2004: 131 n. 54.
12. Hornblower 1981: 12, 232, is more convincing than Seibert 1969:
170–71, who identifi es in Diod. 19.81 two different sources. She also
speculates that Hieronymus might even be one of the advisers reported to
have (wisely) warned Demetrius against going into battle.
13. Cf. Simpson 1959, esp. 374.
14. Pithon: Diod. 19.82.1, 85.2; other generals: Billows 1990: 127
(omitting Boeotus: Diod. 19.85.2).
15. Plutarch perhaps overstresses Euemenes’ virtues in his biography
(see Bosworth 1992b), but I see no compelling reason to attribute his
account here to Duris or a source other than Hieronymus, as claimed by
Fontana 1960: 231–32; Hornblower 1981: 69. For the following, cf. Vezin
1907: 101–02; Schäfer 2002: 148–49.
16. Bosworth 2002: 126–27. I found the similarities he detects to
Alexander’s illness in Babylon less persuasive.
17. See below for the Macedonians’ baggage, and Schäfer 2002: 153–54,
for additional possible reasons for Antigonus’ advantage.
18. Diod. 19.43.1–44.3; Plut. Eum. 17.1–19.3; Nepos Eum. 10.1–12.4;
Just. 3.1–4.21; Polyaenus 4.6.13.
19. Diod. 19.34.7, 37.1, 39.1; Plut. Eum. 15.4; Nepos Eum. 8.1–4. Polyaenus
4.6.11 uniquely asserts that Eumenes himself distributed his army
along a 1,000-stade road, but this distance alone is confi rmed by the other
sources.
20. Cf. Bosworth 2002: 142 n. 158, who confuses, however, Plutarch
with Nepos when he says that the former highlights the troops’ luxuriousness.
Plutarch’s 15.1 tois hēgemosin entruph ōntes is best translated as
“mocking the commanders.”
21. Diod. 19.37.2–39.1; Plut. Eum. 15.4–13; Nepos Eum. 8.4–10.
22. Cf. Bosworth 2002: 142; Anson 2004: 182; Loman 2005: 360–61.
23. Distance covered by the army: Plut. Eum. 15.4; Polyaenus
4.6.11. Eumenes’ mastering the troops: Diod. 19.38.2; cf. Plut. Eum.
15.9–19.
24. Diod. 19.33.1–34.7. See Bosworth 2002: 174–76, who argues that
Strabo’s (15.1.30; cf. 62) very similar account may come also from this
source.
25. Bosworth 2002: 173–87, cf. 208. The quotation: 2002: 173.
26. Herodotus’ influence: Hdt. 5.5; Heckel and Yardley 1981, esp.
306; Bosworth 2002: 178–79. Indian influence: Bosworth 2002:
179–84.
27. Isaurians: Diod. 18.22.1–8; Pisidians: Diod. 18.46.1–47; Nabatean
digression: Diod. 19.94–99.3, and Hieronymus as the source: e.g., Jacoby
FGrH IIC no. 154, 559; Hornblower 1981: 144.