HELP! From: THE ODYSSEY: BOOKS 19 & 20
Read the excerpt below and answer the question.
So he growled from his depths, hackles rising out their outrage.
"Bear up, old heart! You've borne worse, far worse,
that day when the Cyclops, man-mountain, bolted
your hardy comrades down. But you held fast—"
To what does this passage refer?
Athena is trying to keep Odysseus from killing the suitors too soon.
Telemachus is trying to calm Odysseus from attacking too soon.
Odysseus is restraining himself from killing the serving-women.
Odysseus is restraining himself from killing Antinous.