§29.22.1ὅτι Εὐμένης ὁ βασιλεὺς τῆς Περσέως καὶ Ῥωμαίων μάχης συντετελεσμένης εἰς παράλογον ἐνέπεσε διάθεσιν, ὡς οἱ πολλοί φασιν, ὡς δὲ τἀνθρώπινα πράγματα φύσιν ἔχει γίνεσθαι κατὰ τὸ πλεῖστον, εἴς τι τῶν εἰωθότων συμβαίνειν· §29.22.2ἱκανὴ γὰρ ἡ τύχη τοῖς παρὰ λόγον τὰ κατὰ λόγον ἐπιτρῖψαι, κἄν τινι συνεργήσῃ καὶ προσθῆται τὴν αὑτῆς ῥοπήν, αὖθις οἷον ἐκ μεταμελείας ἀντισηκοῦν καὶ λυμαίνεσθαι τὰ κατορθώματα παρὰ πόδας. §29.22.3ὃ καὶ τότε περὶ τὸν Εὐμένη γενέσθαι συνέπεσε· §29.22.4δόξας γὰρ μάλιστα τότε τὴν ἰδίαν ἀρχὴν ἐν ἀσφαλεῖ βεβηκέναι καὶ πολλὴν ἐπιφέρειν ῥᾳστώνην τὸν ἑξῆς χρόνον, ἅτε τοῦ Περσέως καὶ καθόλου τῆς ἐν Μακεδονίᾳ βασιλείας ἄρδην ἀνῃρημένης, τότε μεγίστοις ἐνεκύρησε κινδύνοις τῶν κατὰ τὴν Ἀσίαν Γαλατῶν ἀνυπονοήτως συνεξαναστάντων τοῖς καιροῖς.
That King Eumenes, when the battle between Perseus and the Romans was concluded, fell into an unexpected situation, as most people say, but, as human affairs naturally turn out for the most part, into one of those things that are accustomed to happen. For Fortune is capable of ruining reasonable expectations by unexpected events, and even if she cooperates with someone and adds her own weight to his scale, she counterbalances it again, as if out of repentance, and immediately ruins his successes. Which indeed happened to be the case with Eumenes at that time. For, thinking at that time that his own rule was established in the greatest security and would bring great ease for the future, inasmuch as Perseus and the kingdom in Macedonia as a whole had been utterly destroyed, he then encountered the greatest dangers, as the Galatians in Asia unexpectedly rose up together in response to the occasion.