 His father's friend used the opportunity to eliminate Eumenes by betraying him to the city council, citing his true heritage as a Scythian.The council decided to sell Eumenes as a slave, letting him stay on his former house until a buyer arrives.His condition got worse from master to being a slave, frowned upon by his former servants (one of the servants, his former servant was the one who used Eumenes to stop the woman's rampages).