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Who says the following and why?

"She's still waiting
there in your halls, poor woman, suffering so,
her life an endless hardship like your own . . .
wasting away the nights, weeping away the days."
THE ODYSSEY by Homer

A) Anticleia is speaking of Penelope.
B) Agamemnon is speaking of Clytemnestra's punishment.
C) Arete is pleading with Odysseus to marry Nausicaa.
D) Odysseus is speaking of leaving Calypso.

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The answer is B. I hope this helps.
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Definitely A! This happens while ody is speaking to his dead mother and he asks how penelope is

Who says the following and why? "She's still waiting there in your halls, poor-example-1
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