Book IV - Mentor reproves Telemachus for too easily falling under Calypso's spell; Telemachus continues his narrative

Summary

Calypso interrupts Telemachus, so that he may take some repose. Mentor reproves him in secret for having undertaken to relate his adventures, but at the same time bids him proceed in his recital since he had begun. Telemachus tells how he had a dream in his passage from Tyre to the isle of Cyprus, in which he saw Minerva protecting him against Venus and Cupid; that he afterwards imagined he saw Mentor, who exhorted him speedily to quit the isle of Cyprus: that when he awoke, the ship would have been lost in a storm, had he not taken the management of the helm himself, because the Cyprians, being intoxicated with wine, were altogether incapable of saving her; that upon his arrival in the island, he had seen examples of the most dangerous and contagious nature; but that Hazael, a Syrian, whose slave Mentor had become, happening also to be there, had reunited the two Greeks, and carried them with him on board his ship to Crete; and that in the passage they had been highly delighted with seeing Amphitrite in her car, drawn by sea horses.

Calypso, who had thus far heard Telemachus recount his adventures with the utmost attention and transport, now interrupted him to make him take a little rest.