1 Mentor," answered Telemachus, "do not let us talk about it any more.
2 I myself saw an immortal god take the form of Mentor and stand beside him.
3 Then she took the form and voice of Mentor, and called Telemachus to come outside.
4 Then Jove's daughter Minerva came up to them, having assumed the voice and form of Mentor.
5 Then Jove's daughter Minerva came up to them, having assumed the form and voice of Mentor.
6 As he thus prayed, Minerva came close up to him in the likeness and with the voice of Mentor.
7 Mentor," he cried, "do not let Ulysses beguile you into siding with him and fighting the suitors.
8 Then Minerva assumed the form and voice of Mentor, and presently made a covenant of peace between the two contending parties.
9 Ulysses was glad when he saw her and said, "Mentor, lend me your help, and forget not your old comrade, nor the many good turns he has done you."
10 Agelaus shouted to them and said, "My friends, he will soon have to leave off, for Mentor has gone away after having done nothing for him but brag."
11 Minerva endowed him with a presence of such divine comeliness that all marvelled at him as he went by, and the suitors gathered round him with fair words in their mouths and malice in their hearts; but he avoided them, and went to sit with Mentor, Antiphus, and Halitherses, old friends of his father's house, and they made him tell them all that had happened to him.