EUMENES

(-néz), the name of two kings of Pergamus. 1. Eumenes I succeeded his uncle Phileterus 263 B.c. He reigned for twenty-two years and then died in a fit of drunkenne . 2. Eumenes II succeeded his father Attalus 197 B.c., and, like him, attached himself to the Romans, who, as a reward for his services in the war against Antiochus of Syria, bestowed upon him the Thracian Cher sones us and almost all Asia on this side of the Taurus. He died in 159 B.c.