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 74 HISTORY OF GREFXE. Sekukus, Koenus, Amyntas, Philippus (these two last namea were borne by more than one person), Antigonus, Neoptolemus,* Meleager, Peukestes, etc., all these seem to have been native Macedonians. All or most of them had been trained to war under Philip, in whose service Parmenio and Antipater, espe- cially, had occupied a high rank. Of the many Greeks in Alexander's service, we hear of few in important station. Medius, a Thessalian from Larissa, waa among his familiar companions ; but the ablest and most dis- tinguished of all was Eumenes, a native of Kardia in the Thra- cian Chersonese. Eumenes, combining an excellent Grecian education Avith bodily activity and enterprise, had attracted when a young man the notice of Philip and had been appointed as his secretary. After dischargmg these duties for seven years until the death of Philip, he was continued by Alexander in the post of chief secretary during the whole of that king's lifc.^ He con- ducted most of Alexander's correspondence, and the daily record of his proceedings, which was kept under the name of the Eoyal Ephemex'ides. But though his special duties were thus of a civil character, he was not less eminent as an officer in the field. Occasionally entrusted with high military command, he received from Alexander signal recompenses and tokens of esteem. In spite of these great qualities — or perhaps in consequence of them — he was the object of marked jealousy and dislike^ on the part of the Macedonians, — from Hephajstion the friend, and Neoptolemus the chief armor-bearer, of Alexander, down to the principal soldiers of the phalanx. Neoptolemus despised Eume- nes as an unwarlike penman. The contemptuous pride with which Macedonians had now come to look down on Greeks, is a notable characteristic of the victorious army of Alexander, as well as a new feature in history ; retorting the ancient Hellenic sentiment in which Demosthenes, a few years before, had in- dulged towards the Macedonians.* ' Neoptolemus belonged, like Alexander liimself, to the JKakid gens (Ar- rian, ii. 27, 9). '* Plutarch, Eumenes, c. 1 ; Cornelius Nepos, Eumcn. c. 1. ' Arrian, vii. 13, 1 ; Plutarch, Eum. 2, 3, 8, 10.
 * Demosth. Philipp. iii. p. 19, respecting Philip — oh novov ovx 'E7>.'Xtjvc%