 Holding a "council of the chief men" ("consilium principum virorum"); that is, the "sunedrion", Perdiccas divides the "imperium", or "Empire", between the top rank ("summa") held by the king and the satrapes.He clarifies, "the empire having been divided into parts" ("divisis imperii partibus"), or partitioned between individuals who could defend or choose to expand them.He points out that those who a little before had been "ministri" under the king now fought to expand their own "kingdoms" ("regna") under the mask of fighting for the empire.