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EUMENES

Volume 4 · 64 words · 1778 Edition

the most worthy of Alexander's successors and generals; was basely delivered up by his own troops to his rival Antigonus, and by him put to death, 315 B.C.

Eumenes II., king of Pergamus, a valiant general, patron of learning, and founder of the famous library at Pergamos, on the model of that at Alexandria. He died 159 B.C. after a reign of 39 years.