Plate LXIX.
Adventures of Telemachus.
Cupid meantime has dissuaded Calypso from her wrath and incited the nymphs to burn the boat that is waiting to bear the visitors away. Mentor, perceiving that Telemachus is secretly glad of this, and fearing the effect of his passion for Eucharis, throws the youth from the cliff into the water, leaps in after him, and swims with him to a ship that lies at anchor beyond the treacherous shoals.