With them Marcia Perley went, trembling and tearful, and Telemachus Twigg, to extricate his son from danger, for it was uncertain what his status was in the forces.

Moreover in 1806 he had the harassment of the alterations and impending production of "Mr. H." On February 26, 1808, he tells Manning that he has just finished The Adventures of Ulysses and the Specimens, describing The Adventures of Ulysses as "intended to be an introduction to the reading of Telemachus!

" The suggestion has been made that, since Lamb states in the preface that this work was designed as a supplement to The Adventures of Telemachus, he was also the author of one of the versions of Fénélon's popular tale.

We know from Lamb's letter to Godwin that the impulse to write The Adventures of Ulysses came from Godwin, and it was natural that he, a bookseller, should wish to associate this new venture with a volume so well known and so acceptable as the Telemachus.

Fénélon, his Telemachus, 507.

Telemachus, The Adventures of, 507.

It was the monk Telemachus, according to the old story, who stopped the gladiatorial games at Rome, and was stoned by the people.

'Why, Sir, Telemachus is pretty well.' BOSWELL.

Later on (ante, iii. 104) he asked Boswell 'to be vigilant and get him Graham's Telemachus.'

You, my lord, were born with that accomplishment of secrecy and retentiveness, which the archbishop of Cambray represents Telemachus as having possessed in so high a degree in consequence of the mode of his education.

"Speak, fair youth, speak Autiloquus, thy words are sweeter than nectar, speak O Telemachus, thou art more powerful than Ulysses, speak Alcibiades though drunk, we will willingly hear thee as thou art."

Remote whispers suggested that I coached it home in triumphfar be that from working pride in me, for I was unconscious of the locomotion; that a young Mentor accompanied a reprobate old Telemachus; that, the Trojan like, he bore his charge upon his shoulders, while the wretched incubus, in glimmering sense, hiccuped drunken snatches of flying on the bats' wings after sunset.

No book gave him so much pleasure as Telemachus, from the pictures which it draws of pastoral life, and of those passions which are natural to the human heart.

The Archbishop of Cambray makes Telemachus say, that though he was young in Years, he was old in the Art of knowing how to keep both his own and his Friends Secrets.

These Words of my Father, says Telemachus, were continually repeated to me by his Friends in his Absence; who made no scruple of communicating to me in their Uneasiness to see my Mother surrounded with Lovers, and the Measures they designed to take on that Occasion.

Now, although a simple cross in the centre might be very appropriate, both as a token of the heroic devotion of the martyr Telemachus and the triumph of a true religion over the barbarities of the Past, this congregation of shrines and bloody pictures mars very much the unity of association so necessary to the perfect enjoyment of any such scene.

But the day that the professor, by logical deduction, called Cinta's son Telemachus, the grandmother protested.

Telemachus is nothing but a theatrical name.

The little Telemachus amused himself pulling apart the old wreaths of the troubador, and tearing out the old prints from his volumes with the inconsequence of a lively child whose father is very far away and who knows that he is idolized by two indulgent ladies.

GRAHAM, Rev. George, Telemachus, i. 411; iii. 104; insults Goldsmith, v. 97.

He was, however, formally declared a citizen of Athens, upon evidence, whether good or bad, upon a decisive judgment, and this for having made his judges merry by an application of a saying of Telemachus, of which this is the sense: "I am, as my mother tells me, the son of Philip: for my own part, I know little of the matter; for what child knows his own father?"

In the year 1712 his Opera of Calypso and Telemachus, was performed at the Queen's Theatre in the Hay-Market.

In 1712 an opera of 'Calypso and Telemachus', to which Hughes wrote the words, was produced with success at the Haymarket.

TELEMACHUS, the son of Ulysses and Penelope (q. v.), who an infant when his father left for Troy was a grown-up man on his return; having gone in quest of his father after his long absence found him on his return in the guise of a beggar, and whom he assisted in slaying his mother's suitors.

See PENELOPE and TELEMACHUS.