Who says this and why? Look at the riffraff courting a kings wife weaklings,look , they can't even string his bow but along came this beggar , drifting out of the blue-strung his bow with ease and shot through all the axes

AMelanthius is teasing the suitors' weakness

Bodysseus is taunting antinous

Ceurymachus is explaining what the people would say if the beggar beat them

Dpenelope is trying to convince antinous to give the beggar the bow