§7.1Itaque copias contraxit, bellum adversus Antigonum comparavit.
Therefore he assembled his forces and prepared war against Antigonus.
quod una erant Macedones complures nobiles, in eis Peucestes, qui corporis custos fuerat Alexandri, tum autem obtinebat Persidem, et Antigenes, cuius sub imperio phalanx erat Macedonum, invidiam verens (quam tamen effugere non potuit), si potius ipse alienigena summi imperii potiretur quam aliquis Macedonum, quorum ibi erat multitudo, §7.2in principiis Alexandri nomine tabernaculum statuit in eoque sellam auream cum sceptro ac diademate iussit poni eoque omnes cottidie convenire, ut ibi de summis rebus consilia caperentur, credens minore se invidia fore, si specie imperii nominisque simulatione Alexandri bellum videretur administrare.
Because many Macedonian nobles were with him—among them Peucestes, who had been a bodyguard of Alexander and was then governing Persis, and Antigenes, under whose command was the Macedonian phalanx—and because he feared ill-will (which, however, he could not escape) if he himself, a foreigner, should hold the supreme command rather than some Macedonian, of whom there was a great multitude there, he erected a tent in the headquarters in the name of Alexander, and ordered a golden chair with a scepter and diadem to be placed in it, and all to assemble there daily, so that councils might be held there concerning the most important matters; believing that he would be exposed to less envy if he should seem to conduct the war under the appearance of power and the simulation of the name of Alexander.
quod effecit.
This he accomplished.
§7.3nam cum non ad Eumenis principia, sed ad regia conveniretur atque ibi de rebus deliberaretur, quodam modo latebat, cum tamen per eum unum gererentur omnia.
For since they assembled not at the headquarters of Eumenes, but at the royal tent, and there deliberated on affairs, he was in a manner concealed, although all things were nevertheless carried on by him alone.