Je ne crois cependant pas avoir trop a me plaindre d'elle en cette occasion." 13 A more probable reason for this companionship, and for the character of Mentor itself, is given by the allegorists, viz.: the assumption of Mentor's form by the guardian deity of the wise Ulysses, Minerva.
The classical reader may compare Plutarch, Opp.t.ii.p.

880; _Xyland._ Heraclid.Pont.Alleg.Hom.p.

531-5, of Gale's Opusc.
Mythol.Dionys.Halic.de Hom.Poes.c.

15; Apul.

de Deo Socrat.