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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 146 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MENTOR , in See also:

Greek See also:legend, the son of Alcimus and the faithful friend of See also:Odysseus. During the See also:absence of the latter, Mentor was entrusted with the care of his See also:household and the See also:guardian-See also:ship of his son See also:Telemachus. The word " mentor " is now used in the sense of a See also:wise and trustworthy adviser, ameaning probably connected with the See also:etymology of the name, from the See also:root mon-, seen, in See also:Lat. monere, to advise, See also:monitor, adviser. The New See also:English See also:Dictionary points out that the transferred use is due less to See also:Homer's Odyssey than to See also:Fenelon's Telemaque, in which Mentor is a somewhat prominent See also:character.

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