name to each one of the chiefs, speaking marvellously like his
wife. Then would we have risen from our place or answered thee
straightway. But Ulysses hindered us, and thus saved all the
Greeks."

But Telemachus said: "Yet all these things have not kept him, for
he has perished."

And after that they slept.




CHAPTER V

MENELAUS'S TALE


The next day Menelaus said to Telemachus: "For what end hast thou
come hither to fair Lacedaemon?"

Then Telemachus said: "I have come to ask if thou canst tell me
aught of my father. For certain suitors of my mother devour my
goods, nor do I see any help. Tell me truly, therefore; knowest
thou anything thyself about my father, or hast thou heard anything
from another?"

And Menelaus answered:--

"In the river AEgyptus I was stayed long time, though I was eager