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Brewer's: Mentor
A guide, a wise and faithful counsellor; so called from Mentor, a friend of Ulysses, whose form Minerva assumed when she accompanied Telemachos in his search for his father. (Fénelon: Télémaque.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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