Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Parætakene Mountains (Wars of Alexander's Successors).

Fought 316 B.C., between the Macedonians, 30,000 strong, under Antigonus, and an equal force of Asiatics, under Eumenes. Eumenes attacked the Macedonian camp, and after a severe engagement, in which the Asiatics held the advantage, Antigonus, by successful manœuvring, withdrew his army without serious loss, leaving Eumenes a barren victory.