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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Calypso, struck with admiration for Telemachus and his adventures, uses all the means she can think of to prevent his leaving the island, and to captivate his heart. Mentor, by his warnings, enables Telemachus to resist both the artifices of the goddess and of Cupid, whom Venus had sent to her assistance. Nevertheless, Telemachus and the nymph Eucharis become mutually enamored of one another – which excites first the jealousy and afterwards the anger of Calypso against the two lovers. She swears by the Styx that Telemachus shall leave her island. Cupid comes and comforts her, and engages her nymphs to go and burn the ship which Mentor had built, and to which he was then (so to speak) dragging Telemachus, in order to put him on board and carry him off. Telemachus feels a secret joy at seeing the ship on fire; Mentor, perceiving this, pushes him into the sea, and throws himself in after him, in order to swim to another ship that was only a little way from the shore.
When Telemachus had finished his speech, the nymphs, who had never taken their eyes off him all the time, and who had been extremely attentive, now looked at one another.
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