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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 – '"

Who is speaking here?

A. Athena
B. Telemachus
C. Odysseus
D. Eumaeus