Continued...

Chapter 4

The main point of chapter 4 is the telling of Telemachus goes with Pisistratus to find fresh information concerning the Grecians which is particularly told that proteus that his father is detained by colypso. Assassins lie and wait to intercept Telemachus and his return to Ithaca.

Chapter 5

The main point of chapter 5 is the telling of Mercury bares to colypso a command from Jupiter that she would dismiss Ulysses after she remonstrances, promises of obedience, and furnishes him with instruments and material he constructs a raft leaves colypso's island and is persicuted by Neptune with bad storms. But by the assistance of a sea nymph after having lost his raft is unable to swim to phæacia.