Arrian described the result of the meeting in
Events after Alexander, which were transmitted to us by the
patriarch Photius (820–897): "Then and there Antipater made a new division of Asia, wherein he partly confirmed the former and partly annulled it, according as the exigency of affairs required. For, in the first place,
Egypt with
Libya, and all the vast waste beyond it, and whatever else had been acquired to the westward, he assigned to
Ptolemy; •
Syria to
Laomedon of Mytilene; •
Cilicia to
Philoxenus, for he held it before. • Among the higher provinces,
Mesopotamia and
Arbelitis were bestowed on
Amphimachus, the king's brother; •
Babylonia, on
Seleucus; • the prefecture of all the province of
Susa, on
Antigenes, who was captain of the
Macedonian Argyraspides, and had first opposed Perdiccas. •
Peucestas was confirmed in his government of
Persis. •
Tlepolemus in
Carmania, • and
Peithon in that of
Media, as far as the
Caspian Gates. •
Philip in
Parthia. •
Stasander in
Aria and
Drangiana. •
Stasanor the Solian, over
Bactria and
Sogdiana; • and
Sibyrtius over
Arachosia. • The country of the
Parapamisians was bestowed upon
Oxyartes, the father of
Roxana; • and the skirts of India adjacent to Mount
Parapamisus, on
Peithon the son of Agenor. • As to the countries beyond that, those on the river
Indus, with the city
Patala (the capital of that part of India) were assigned to
Porus. • Those upon the
Hydaspes, to
Taxiles the Indian; for it was deemed no easy matter to dispossess those who had been confirmed in their territories by Alexander himself, their power was grown so strong. • Of the countries to the northward of
Mount Taurus,
Cappadocia was assigned to
Nicanor; •
Phrygia,
Lycaonia,
Pamphylia, and
Lycia, as before, to
Antigonus. •
Caria to
Asander; •
Lydia to
Cleitus; • and
Hellespontine Phrygia to
Arrhidaeus.
Antigenes was deputed collector of the tribute in the province of Susa, and three thousand of those Macedonians who were the most ready to mutiny, appointed to attend him. Moreover, he appointed Autolychus the son of Agathocles, Amyntas the son of Alexander and brother of
Peucestas, Ptolemy the son of Ptolemy, and
Alexander the son of
Polyperchon, as guards to surround the king's person. To his son
Cassander he gave the command of the horse; and to Antigonus, the troops that had before been assigned to Perdiccas, and the care and custody of the king's person, with order to prosecute the war against
Eumenes. Which done, Antipater himself departed home, much applauded by all, for his wise and prudent management" (Translation John Rooke) ==References==