 This natural goodness moved the assembly to reaffirm his position.Eumenes managed to sway Meleager's troops to a less belligerent position, proposing a compromise in which Arrhidaeus would be made king, and, if Roxana's child proved to be a son, he should be made joint king with Arrhidaeus.According to Curtius, the assembly sacrificed "the old view of the kingship".