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Eumenes did not like Hephaestion.
The King, he could deal with. Alexander shone with integrity, earnest to a fault; probably teetering the precipice of overzealousness, if Eumenes was pressed to define it so. Alexander assumed this quality with a divine grace, he sharpened his fervour as if it were a blade, and his zeal became the edge by which flanks were cut and domains carved.
Hephaestion possessed exactly none of these qualities.