real difficulties of a war, of whose final issue, moreover, he could never have had any serious doubt, were overcome—­have sold to the instigator of the murder his share in the spoil for a few talents, and should have perilled the work of long years for so pitiful a consideration, may be set down not merely as a fabrication, but as a very silly one.  That no proof was found either in the papers of Perseus or elsewhere, is sufficiently certain; for even the Romans did not venture to express those suspicions aloud, But they gained their object.  Their wishes appeared in the behaviour of the Roman grandees towards Attalus, the brother of Eumenes, who had commanded the Pergamene auxiliary troops in Greece.  Their brave and faithful comrade was received in Rome with open arms and invited to ask not for his brother, but for himself—­the senate would be glad to give him a kingdom of his own.  Attalus asked nothing but Aenus and Maronea.  The senate thought that this was only a preliminary request, and granted it with great politeness.  But when he took his departure without having made any further demands, and the senate came to perceive that the reigning family in Pergamus did not live on such terms with each other as were customary in princely houses, Aenus and Maronea were declared free cities.  The Pergamenes obtained not a foot’s breadth of territory out of the spoil of Macedonia; if after the victory over Antiochus the Romans had still saved forms as respected Philip, they were now disposed to hurt and to humiliate.  About this time the senate appears to have declared Pamphylia, for the possession of which Eumenes and Antiochus had hitherto contended, independent.  What was of more importance, the Galatians—­who had been substantially in the power of Eumenes, ever since he had expelled the king of Pontus by force of arms from Caiatia and had on making peace extorted from him the promise that he would maintain no further communication with the Galatian princes—­now, reckoning beyond doubt on the variance that had taken place between Eumenes and the Romans, if not directly instigated by the latter, rose against Eumenes, overran his kingdom, and brought him into great danger.  Eumenes besought the mediation of the Romans; the Roman envoy declared his readiness to mediate, but thought it better that Attalus, who commanded the Pergamene army, should not accompany him lest the barbarians might be put into ill humour.  Singularly enough, he accomplished nothing; in fact, he told on his return that his mediation had only exasperated the barbarians.  No long time elapsed before the independence of the Galatians was expressly recognized and guaranteed by the senate.  Eumenes determined to proceed to Rome in person, and to plead his cause in the senate.  But the latter, as if troubled by an evil conscience, suddenly decreed that in future kings should not be allowed to come to Rome; and despatched a quaestor to meet him at Brundisium, to lay before him this decree of the senate, to ask him what he wanted, and to hint to him that they would be glad to see his speedy departure.  The king was long silent; at length he said that he desired nothing farther, and re-embarked.  He saw how matters stood:  the epoch of half-powerful and half-free alliance was at an end; that of impotent subjection began.