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[4] Whereupon Perdiccas afterwards making a feint of viewing the army, seized the chief authors of the sedition, and (as if king Aridaeus had ordered it, even before his face) put them to death. This struck a terror into the rest, and soon after he slew Meleager also. Thereupon Perdiccas fell under the suspicion of all the rest, and he began to be as jealous of them. However, he proceeded to nominate them to the government of provinces, and in the same manner as if Aridaeus had commanded him: accordingly Ptolemy the son of Lagus was by him deputed to preside over Egypt and Libya, with that part of Arabia adjacent to Egypt; and Cleomenes, who had been constituted governor of Egypt by Alexander, was made Ptolemy's deputy. That part of Syria which lay under this district was bestowed upon Laomedon. Philotas was made prefect of Cilicia, and Python of Media. Eumenes the Cardian received Cappadocia and Paphlagonia, with all the country along the Euxine Sea, as far as Trapezeus, a colony of the Sinopeans. Pamphylia and Lycia, with the Greater Phrygia, were given to Antigonus; Caria to Cassander; Lydia to Menander. That part of Phrygia which runs along the Hellespont, to Leonnatus. Calas had obtained that province of Alexander himself before, and it was afterwards committed to Demarchus. Thus was Asia distributed among them at that time.
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