EUMENES
75 AD
EUMENES
Reigned 197-160? B.C.
by Plutarch
translated by John Dryden
DURIS reports that Eumenes, the Cardian, was the son of a poor wagoner in the Thracian Chersonesus, yet liberally educated, both as a scholar and a soldier; and that while he was but young, Philip, passing through Cardia, diverted himself with ...