Mentor

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 137

Mentor, the son of Alcimus, and trusted friend of Ulysses, who, on setting out for Troy, left him the charge of his household. By him the young Telemachus was educated, and his name has become a synonym for an instructor and guide.

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