<head>Attalus Wants his Brother's Honours Restored</head>While Attalus was spending the winter in Elateia (in<note anchored="yes" place="marg" id="note42">Attalus desires that his brother Eumenes should be restored to honour in the <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Peloponnese&groupId=861&placeId=1552">Peloponnese</a>.</note><a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Phocis&groupId=892&placeId=1606">Phocis</a>), knowing that his brother Eumenes was annoyed in the highest possible degree at the splendid honours which had been awarded to him having been annulled by a public decree of the Peloponnesians, though he concealed his annoyance from every one,—he took upon himself to send messages to certain of the Achaeans, urging that not only the statues of honour, but the complimentary inscriptions<pb n="370" />also, which had been placed in his brother's honour, should be restored. His motive in acting thus was the belief that he could give his brother no greater gratification, and at the same time would display to the Greeks by this act his own brotherly affection and generosity.<note anchored="yes" place="unspecified" id="note43">Hence Attalus obtained the name of Philadelphus. The origin of Eumenes's loss of popularity in the <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Peloponnese&groupId=861&placeId=1552">Peloponnese</a> is referred to in<ref target="b28c7" targOrder="U">28, 7</ref>, but no adequate cause is alleged. A reference to Achaia in his speech at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Rome&groupId=935&placeId=1669">Rome</a> was not perhaps altogether friendly (<bibl n="Liv. 42.12" default="NO" valid="yes">Livy, 42, 12</bibl>), and we shall see that he was afterwards suspected of intriguing with Perseus; but if this extract is rightly placed, it can hardly be on this latter ground that the Achaeans had renounced him.</note>. . .
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